Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 6.8° S, 0.4° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Horse Road Sandstone Formation (Upper Old Red Sandstone Group), Tournaisian to Tournaisian (358.9 - 330.9 Ma)

• Series of sandstone and cementstone. Cementstone bands yielding anatomically preserved plants are found both below and above the Horse Roads Sandstone.

Environment/lithology: shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. C. Scott, J. Galtier, and G. Clayton. 1984. Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 75:311-340 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]more details

PaleoDB collection 10652: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 08.06.2001, edited by Alistair McGowan

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