East Kilbride (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 4.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: E1 ammonoid zone, Shrimp Member (Manse Burn Formation), Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. E. K. Sequeira and M. I. Coates. 2000. Reassessment of Cladodus neilsoni Traquair: a primitive shark from the Lower Carboniferous of East Kilbridge, Scotland. Palaeontology 43(1):153-172 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/E. Ito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140305: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.03.2013, edited by Sophie Fasey

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys carinatus Agassiz 1835
NMS 1887.25.1136
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Gyrolepis rankinii Agassiz 1844
NMS 1887.25.1138
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys robisoni Hibbert 1835 ray-finned fish
NMS
Chondrichthyes
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
"Cladodus neilsoni n. sp." = Gutturensis neilsoni
"Cladodus neilsoni n. sp." = Gutturensis neilsoni Traquair 1898 elasmobranch