River Tweed below Coldstream (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Fouldenia ischiptera type locality

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 0.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: CM miospore other zone, Calciferous sandstone Formation (Cementstone Group), Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, concretionary shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BGS

Primary reference: L. C. Sallan and M. I. Coates. 2013. Styracopterid (Actinopterygii) ontogeny and the multiple origins of post-Hangenberg deep-bodied fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169:156-199 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229962: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 19.04.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Eurynotiformes - Styracopteridae
Fouldenia ischiptera n. gen. n. sp.
Fouldenia ischiptera n. gen. n. sp. Traquair 1881
GSE 2187 (holotype)