“…It is a common component in collections from the Baltic region (Lindstrom 1955;Van Wamel 1974;Lofgren 1978;Tolmacheva & Lofgren 2000), and is known from Kazakhstan (Dubinina 1991;2000). Occurrences in Britain include the Crawford Group at Ravengill Burn in the Southern Uplands (Lamont & Lindstrom 1957;Armstrong et al 2002) and the North Esk locality as reported here. It has been described from many localities around the margins of Laurentia, for example Cow Head Group, western Newfoundland (Fahraeus & Nowlan 1978;Stouge & Bagnoli 1988;Pohler 1994;Williams et al 1994;Johnston & Barnes 1999;2000), Deep Kill Shale, eastern New York (Landing 1976), Jutland Klippe in northern New Jersey (Repetski et al 1995), Hamburg Klippe, central Pennsylvania Repetski 1984), Mazarn Shale, Ouachita Mountains, central Arkansas (Chludzinski 1993), Ninemile Formation, Antelope Range, Eureka County, Nevada (Ethington 1972) and Kechika Formation, northeastern British Columbia (Pyle & Barnes 2002).…”