near Point Edward (Carboniferous to of Canada)

Also known as Sydney Harbour, Cape Breton

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.2° N, 60.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° S, 6.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Point Edward Formation (Canso Group), Serpukhovian to Serpukhovian (330.9 - 315.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: D. Baird. 1962. A rhachitomous amphibian Spathicephalus from the Mississippian of Nova Scotia. Breviora 157:1-10 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175248: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 08.12.2015, edited by Bryan Gee

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes - Belantseidae
Ctenoptychius cristatus1
Ctenoptychius cristatus1 Dawson 1868 chimaera
 Climatiiformes - Gyracanthidae
Gyracanthidae indet.
Gyracanthidae indet. Woodward 1906 spiny fish
YPM PU 17185, 17186 (spines)
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Sagenodontidae
? Sagenodus sp.
? Sagenodus sp. Owen 1867 lungfish
YPM PU 17187 (cranial fragment)
 Tetrapoda -
Embolomeri indet.1
Embolomeri indet.1 tetrapod
CMN 10015A (cranial fragments)
 Tetrapoda - Eogyrinidae
Pholiderpeton bretonense n. sp.3
Pholiderpeton bretonense n. sp.3 Romer 1958 tetrapod
MCZ 2772 (type mold of mandible)
 Tetrapoda - Proterogyrinidae
Proterogyrinidae indet.1
Proterogyrinidae indet.1 Romer 1970 tetrapod
CMN 10015B (left lower jaw)
 Tetrapoda - Colosteidae
Colosteidae indet.2
Colosteidae indet.2 Cope 1875 tetrapod
YPM VPPU 20100 (exposed ventral aspect)
 Baphetoidea - Spathicephalidae
Spathicephalus pereger n. sp.
Spathicephalus pereger n. sp. Baird 1962 tetrapod
PU 17182 (type, skull table)
1Adams et al. 2020; 2Carroll et al. 1972; 3Romer 1958