Balruddery (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.5° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 10.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dundee Flagstone Formation (Arbuthnott-Garvock Group), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sir Philip Egerton; reposited in the BGS

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 195123: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2018

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Taxonomic list

Myriapoda
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Kampecaris forfarensis Peach 1882 millipede