Where: Gauss Peninsula, Greenland (74.0° N, 21.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 3.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Britta Dal Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Specimen derives from the Britta Dal Formation, from the same mass-death deposit that has yielded most of the Acanthostega material.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1987
• Specimens collected in 1987 on an expedition to East Greenland mounted by the University of Cambridge and the Geological Museum Copenhagen, under the auspices of the Greenland Geological Survey
Primary reference: P. E. Ahlberg and J. A. Clack. 2020. The smallest known Devonian tetrapod shows unexpectedly derived features. Royal Society Open Science 7(192117) [E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 208696: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Emma Dunne on 09.04.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Brittagnathus minutus n. gen. n. sp.
Brittagnathus minutus n. gen. n. sp. Ahlberg and Clack 2020 tetrapod NHMD 116368 (holotype): small complete right lower jaw ramus
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Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik 1952 tetrapod |