Eathie burn, Cromarty (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Locality 15 Eathie burn, Cromarty-Blackisle

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.7° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 20.1° S, 2.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: yellow sandstone and shale

• Richardson (1960, p.47): Red and yellow massively bedded sandstone with thin intercalations of purple shale.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: replaced with carbon

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: J. B. Richardson. 1960. Spores from the Middle Old Red Sandstone of Cromarty, Scotland. Palaeontology 3(1):45-63 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22749: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 24.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Life -
Cristatisporites
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Punctatisporites
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Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Sphenopsida
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Retusotriletes
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Trileites
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Apiculatisporis
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