Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 0.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Strathclyde Group, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• The Strathclyde Group (previously named the "Oil Shale Group") has been dated between the Chadian (Moliniacian) and Brigantian (Upper Dinantian) sub-ages according to the BGS.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Royal Scottish Museum (RSM)

Primary reference: D. M. S. Watson. 1929. The Carboniferous Amphibia of Scotland. Palaeontologia Hungarica 1:223-252 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175812: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 13.01.2016, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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