Kenilworth (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° N, 12.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kenilworth Sandstone Formation (Warwickshire Group), Asselian (298.9 - 295.5 Ma)

• The Kenilworth Sandstone is lowest Permian, possibly uppermost Carboniferous, and is a subunit of the Warwickshire Group (e.g., Powell et al., 2000, British Geological Survey Research Report RR/00/01; Ruffell et al., 2006, in Brenchley & Rawson (eds.), The Geology of England and Wales).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments

• The Kenilworth Sandstone Formation is represented mainly by coarse grained siliciclastics (sandstones, conglomerates, breccias) deposited by freshwater action (Powell et al., 2000; Ruffell et al., 2006).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BGS

• GSM = Geological Survey Museum (British Geological Survey)

•Gz = Warwick County Museum

Primary reference: R. L. Paton. 1974. Lower Permian Pelycosaurs from the English Midlands. Palaeontology 17(3):541-552 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80783: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 08.05.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht and Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
"Oxyodon britannicus n. gen. n. sp." = Sphenacodon britannicus
"Oxyodon britannicus n. gen. n. sp." = Sphenacodon britannicus von Huene 1908 synapsid
GSM 22893 + 22894 (part and counterpart)
 Synapsida -
"Haptodus grandis n. sp." = Hypselohaptodus grandis
"Haptodus grandis n. sp." = Hypselohaptodus grandis Paton 1974 synapsid
Gz 1071 (type)
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Zatracheidae
"Labyrinthodon bucklandi n. sp." = Dasyceps bucklandi
"Labyrinthodon bucklandi n. sp." = Dasyceps bucklandi Lloyd 1850 tetrapod
Warwick Museum Gz 42, skull