Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.1° S, 147.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.7° S, 162.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Coffee Hill Member (Columbine Sandstone Formation), Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
• Tooth plates
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Repositories: Australian Museum, Sydney (AM) and Mining and Metallurgical Museum, Sydney (MMMC)
Primary reference: A. Kemp. 2000. Chirodipterus potteri, a new Devonian lungfish from New South Wales, Australia: And the ontogeny of chirodipterid tooth plates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(4):665-674 [S. Peters/S. McMullen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136236: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 24.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Chirodipterus potteri n. sp.
Chirodipterus potteri n. sp. Kemp 2000 lungfish |