Gilmerton Ironstone (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)
Also known as near Ferniehill
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 2.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Brigantian (336.0 - 326.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Royal Scottish Museum (RSM)
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 175821: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 13.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• RSM 272 C. scoticus is thought to be from here following analysis of the matrix characteristics (Watson, 1929)
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Crassigyrinus scoticus n. gen. n. sp.
Crassigyrinus scoticus n. gen. n. sp. Watson 1929 tetrapod RSM 272 (Hugh Miller collection), (type) right side of a skull
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