Robroyston (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 4.6° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Index Limestone Member (Upper Limestone Formation), Pendleian (326.4 - 318.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone
• A pale to dark grey bioclastic (crinoidal) marine limestone, with algal nodules. The name is not geographical in origin, but indicates a marker bed for the Limestone Coal Formation coal seams below.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: Specimens held at Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow and National Museum of Scotland
Primary reference: E. D. Currie. 1954. Scottish Carboniferous Goniatites. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh LXII(II) [A. McGowan/A. McGowan] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93307: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.01.2010