near Forbes (Devonian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.5° S, 147.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 144.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Cloghnan Shale

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. S. W. Campbell and M. W. Bell. 1977. A primitive amphibian from the Late Devonian of New South Wales. Alcheringa 1:369-381 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176217: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 01.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapodomorpha -
Metaxygnathus denticulatus n. gen. n. sp. Campbell and Bell 1977 lobe-finned fish
ANU 28780A-B (holotype; right mandibular ramus in part and counterpart)