Portishead - Famennian
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Pendower Beach - Frasnian
Thurso - Givetian
Daddy Hole - Eifelian
Freshwater East - Lochkovian
Devonian
GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE: Gondwanaland still in Southern Hemisphere, Eurasia and North America lie in the tropics, Shale's, Slates and Old Red sandstones laid down as continents flood during warm, dry climate.
TERRESTRIAL ANIMAL LIFE: Flightless insects, spiders and the first amphibians.
PLANT LIFE: Primitive, large spore-bearing plants from the first forests Horsetails, club mosses appear.
SEA LIFE: Horn Corals, Brachiopods, ammonites, Crinoids, conodonts and Trilobites. The age of Fish's, jaws and jawless bony fish, armoured fish, lobe-fin fish and cartilaginous fish all abundant. |
British Stratification Tables
Updated and correct from 2004 MYA=Million Years Ago from present
Famennian
354 - 364 MYA |
U
P
P
E
R
R
E
D
S
A
N
D
S
T
O
N
E |
Balnagown Group |
|
| Portishead Beds |
Portishead |
| Tintern Sandstone |
|
| Dunnet Head Sandstone Group |
|
M
I
D
D
L
E
R
E
D
S
A
N
D
S
T
O
N
E |
Col-Bheinn Formation |
|
| Smeorail Formation |
|
| Lower Caithness Flagstone Group |
Hillhead Red Bed Subgroup |
|
| Berriedale Flagstone Formation |
|
| Berriedale Sandstone Formation |
|
| Clyth Subgroup |
|
Badbea Breccia /
Ellen's Geo Con |
|
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