Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 1.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ballagan Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)
• "Mid Tournaisian."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, black, sandy siltstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Clack, C. E. Bennett, D. K. Carpenter, S. J. Davies, N. C. Fraser, T. I. Kearsey, J. E. A. Marshall, D. Millward, B. K. A. Otoo, E. J. Reeves, A. J. Ross, M. Ruta, K. Z. Smithson, T. R. Smithson, and S. A. Walsh. 2016. Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(0002) [R. Butler/E. Dunne/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183473: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 26.12.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Perittodus apsconditus, Diploradus austiumensis n. gen. n. sp.
Perittodus apsconditus Clack et al. 2016 tetrapod UMZC 2016.1. Isolated dentary and adsymphysial (in microCT scan). 373.95m above the base of the Ballagan Formation.
Diploradus austiumensis n. gen. n. sp. Clack et al. 2016 tetrapod UMZC 2015.30. (Holotype) Small disrupted skull with lower jaw, palate and skull roofing bones. 373.95m above the base of the Ballagan Formation.
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