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 20.2° S, 2.2° 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