Scat Craig, Elgin (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.6° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° S, 2.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: RMS

Primary reference: P. E. Ahlberg. 1995. Elginerpeton pancheni and the earliest tetrapod clade. Nature 373:420-425 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176215: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 01.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapodomorpha - Elginerpetontidae
Elginerpeton pancheni n. gen. n. sp.
Elginerpeton pancheni n. gen. n. sp. Ahlberg 1995 lobe-finned fish
RMS G 1967.17.1 (holotype; incomplete lower jaw ramus)