Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 27.1° S, 8.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pettycur Volcanics Formation (Upper Oil Shale Group), Asbian (339.9 - 335.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression, permineralized, charcoalification
Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: G. M. Rex and A.C. Scott. 1987. The Sedimentology, Palaeoecology and Preservation of the Lower Carboniferous Plant Deposits at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland. Geol. Mag. 124:43-66 [B. DiMichele/B. DiMichele/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35925: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jason Cassara on 11.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Lepidodendron sp. Sternberg 1820 |