Turin Hill Quarries
Geological Conservation Review site | GCR #91 | Palaeontology | Palaeozoic Palaeobotany
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Summary
This quarry complex is of national importance for the fossil plants within the Old Red Sandstone Arbuthnott Group. Rocks of this group here yield the most abundant assemblage of this Devonian, Seigenian-age flora in Britain. The flora is dominated by Parka and Zosterophyllum with subsidiary Pachytheca, Prototaxites and Cooksonia and is distinct from the assemblage of the slightly younger Strathmore Group. This is the best example of this distincitive flora, typical of the Lower Devonian of the Scottish Midland Valley, which has correlatives in Spitzbergen and Russia.
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