Where: England, United Kingdom (53.1° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 8.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Coal Measures Group, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Some specimens in NHMUK collection
Primary reference: T. P. Barkas. 1873. Illustrated Guide to the Fish, Amphibian, Reptilian and Supposed Mammalian Remains of the northumberland Carboniferous Strata. 117 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176254: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 04.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Orthosaurus pachycephalus" = Megalocephalus pachycephalus
"Orthosaurus pachycephalus" = Megalocephalus pachycephalus Barkas 1873 tetrapod NHMUK specimen (cranial remains)
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Amphibia | |
"Palaeogyrinus decorus" = Palaeoherpeton decorum
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Osteichthyes | |
Pholiderpeton scutigerum Huxley 1869 tetrapod |