Wimans Bjerg, Gauss Halvø (Devonian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (73.5° N, 23.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° S, 3.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Britta Dal Formation (Celsius Bjerg Group), Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: MGUH

Primary reference: E. Jarvik. 1952. On the fish-like tail in the ichthyostegid stegocephalians with descriptions of a new stegocephalian and new crossopterygian from the Upper Devonian of East Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 114(12):190 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176216: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 01.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapodomorpha - Ichthyostegidae
Ichthyostega watsoni lobe-finned fish
MGUH VP 6003 (holotype; incomplete skull)
 Tetrapoda - Acanthostegidae
Acanthostega gunnari n. gen. n. sp.
Acanthostega gunnari n. gen. n. sp. Jarvik 1952 tetrapod
MGUH VP 6085 (Holotype; incomplete skull roof)