Glenarbuck (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° S, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: CM Palynozone zone, Hastarian to Hastarian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Sequences occur immediately below the main Clyde Plateau lavas

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, graded, bioturbated siltstone

• Sequence consists of a series of siltstones, coals, seatearths, and shales. Series of siltstones with volcanic clasts, coals, seatearths, and shales. Some nodular limestones which were the source of spores

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. C. Scott, J. Galtier, and G. Clayton. 1984. Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 75:311-340 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10644: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 08.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stigmaria ficoides
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Stigmaria ficoides Sternberg 1822
 Coenopteridales -
 Coenopteridales - Zygopteridaceae
Heterangium
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Lyginorachis
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 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Ginkgoopsida
 Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae
Endoxylon zonatum Kidston 1923
Lycopodiopsida
 Isoetales -
Mittagia seminiformis
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Mittagia seminiformis Lignier 1913
Lepidocarpon
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