Carmyllie, near Arbroath (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.6° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 10.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: micrornatus–newportensis pollen zone, Dundee Flagstone Formation (Arbuthnott-Garvock Group), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Spore assemblages from the Arbuthnott group were originally thought to indicate an early Pragian age (e.g., Richardson, 1967; Holland and Richardson, 1977), however, these are now considered to belong within the micrornatus–newportensis Spore Assemblage Biozone, indicating an early Lochkovian age (Richardson et al., 1984; Wellman, 1993; Lavender and Wellman, 2002).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Dominated by planar and crossbedded fluvial sandstones, probably deposited in channels and as braid bars. However, drainage was periodically blocked to produce lacustrine conditions where clastic, carbonate, and organic laminates were deposited.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh (NMS)

Primary reference: B. N. Peach. 1882. On some fossil myriapods from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Forfarshire. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 7:177-188 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155933: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Myriapoda
 Chilognatha - Gaspestriidae
Sigmastria dilata n. gen. n. sp.
Sigmastria dilata n. gen. n. sp. Wilson 2006 millipede
NMS G.1957.1.5149
 Archidesmida - Archidesmidae
Archidesmus macnicoli Peach 1882 millipede
NMS G.1953.7.1