Royston Road, Royston (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Formerly Garngad Road, name changed in 1942

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° N, 4.9° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Millstone Grit Group, Namurian (330.9 - 318.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• Fine- to very coarse-grained feldspathic sandstones, interbedded with grey siltstones and mudstones, with subordinate marine shaly mudstone, claystone, coals and seatearths.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: E. D. Currie. 1954. Scottish Carboniferous Goniatites. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh LXII(II) [A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93316: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.01.2010, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Anthracoceras glabrum Bisat 1924 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Mourlonia striata Sowerby 1815 snail