Where: England, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• The junction between Penrith Sandstone and the Plant Beds is seen in the riverbank on the north side at the western end of Ash Bank Wood. Most of the Plant Beds are exposed in the river bluff on the south side of the beck and consist of a series of well-bedded, alternating sandstones and thin pale-grey or olive-green shales.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy shale

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), chemical,

Primary reference: R.F.A. Clarke. 1965. British Permian saccate and monosulcate miospores. Palaeontology 8(2):322-354 [C. Looy/C. Looy/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23077: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 09.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)