Mason Heugh's Quarry, Cummingstone (Triassic to of the United Kingdom)

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
 Caseasauria - Caseidae
Chelichnus megacheirus n. sp. Huxley 1859 synapsid