Also known as Cummingstown, Elgin
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.7° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 0.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation, Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Formation not reported, and only described as Triassic, but said to have come from the same beds as Stagonolepis, so assumed to be Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation (Tresise & Sarjeant, 1997)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by L. Brickenden, P. Duff, A. Young, S. Beckles in 1852
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
• "lodged in the collections of the Institute of Geological Sciences, London"
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1860. Palaeontology or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations 1-420 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197333: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Chelichnus megacheirus n. sp.
Chelichnus megacheirus n. sp. Huxley 1859 synapsid |