southeast side of Stensiƶ Bjerg (Devonian of Greenland)

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

• "The matrix is the typical micaceous silty sandstone of that horizon. "

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
 Tetrapoda -
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
 Tetrapoda - Acanthostegidae
Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik 1952 tetrapod