Also known as Perton Quarry (by Lang)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.3° S, 11.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: ? ultimus, lower tripapillatus-spicula spore zone zone, Rushall Formation (Downton Group), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• Also mentioned as the Rushall Beds of the Downton Castle Sandstone Formation, Near the base of the Rushall Beds. Pridoli age based on ostracodes and spores (Fanning et al. 1988). Selected group of beds, because it is evident several surfaces were examined for fossils, but these occur in a more or less vertically constrained level...(PGG)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green mudstone and green sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. H. Lang. 1937. On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 227B:245-291 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10706: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 15.06.2001

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