Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 1.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Althapsis leachi zone, Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• Fish referable to Althaspis leachi? and Europrotaspis crenulata typical of A. leachi zone overlie the plant bed, this is tentatively correlated with the lower Siegenian in Europe (White 1956)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, micaceous, gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: D. Edwards and J. B. Richardson. 1974. Lower Devonian (Dittonian) plants from the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 17(2):311-324 [P. Gensel/P. Gensel/P. Gensel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25242: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Pat Gensel on 04.09.2002

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