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- Rhynie chert - The Rhynie chert is an Early Devonian lagerstĀtte found near the village of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, containing exceptionally preserved plant, fungus and animal material petrified in three dimensions by covering with fast-setting volcanic minerals. The bulk of the fossil bed consists of primitive plants (which had water-conducting ...
- Rhyniophyta - Rhyniophyta is a name sometimes used for the group of plants found in the Rhynie chert, Lagerstätte (rich fossil beds) in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Rhyniophyta or Rhynie flora are unusual for their excellent preservation of very early fossils of primitive vascular plants, in addition to plants with uncertain vascular traces, and non-vascular plants.
- Rhyniella praecursor - Rhyniella praecursor is a fossil collembolan (springtail) from the Rhynie chert (c. 400 million years ago), which was long believed to be the only hexapod from the lowermost Devonian.
- Robert Kidston - Robert Kidston FRS (29 June 1852 - 13 July 1924) was a Scottish palaeobotanist. He studied botany at the University of Edinburgh and later studied the Rhynie chert and worked for the British Geological Survey.