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Spore assemblages from the Lower Devonian ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone’ deposits of Arran, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2009

Charles H. Wellman
Charles H. Wellman*
Affiliation:
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK Email: c.wellman@Sheffield.ac.uk
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Abstract

Dispersed spore assemblages have been recovered from the Am Binnein Sandstones from the upper part of the ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone’ sequence on the island of Arran, Scotland. The spore assemblages belong with the Emphanisporites annulatus–Camarozonotriletes sextantii (AS) Spore Assemblage Biozone (SAB), indicating an Early Devonian, Emsian (but not earliest Emsian or latest Emsian) age. This is the first reliable age constraint for the ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone’ of Arran, and enables correlation with the more extensive sequence developed on the mainland in the Midland Valley of Scotland. The Am Binnein Sandstones are confirmed as correlatives of the Strathmore Group.

Keywords

EmsianAm Binnein SandstonesStrathmore Groupearly land plants
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 100 , Issue 4 , December 2009 , pp. 391 - 397
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2010

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