Pirnie Colliery (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.2° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 7.5° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Parrot Coal Formation, Kashirian (313.8 - 311.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Kirkby

• orig. in Hancock Museum, Newcastle

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 157227: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.06.2014, edited by Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Baphetoidea - Baphetidae
Baphetes kirkbyi n. sp. Watson 1929 tetrapod
HMG 15.69, 15.70, and 15.71 (holotype; fragments of a signal skull)
Amphibia
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"Palaeogyrinus decorus n. gen. n. sp." = Palaeoherpeton decorum
"Palaeogyrinus decorus n. gen. n. sp." = Palaeoherpeton decorum Watson 1926 tetrapod
NEWHM: G015.71 (HM G 15.71)