Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.3° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 0.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Anstruther Formation, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)
• Anstruther Formation, Strathclyde Group; tessellatus–campyloptera(TC) palynozone (from the upper part of this zone); Asbian, Visean, Mississippian (336–335 Ma).
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. R. Smithson, M. A. Browne, S. J. Davies, J. E. Marshall, D. Millward, S. A. Walsh, and J. A. Clack. 2017. A New Mississippian Tetrapod from Fife, Scotland and its Environmental Context. Papers in Palaeontology 1-11 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188401: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 31.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Spathicephalus marsdeni n. sp.
Spathicephalus marsdeni n. sp. Smithson et al. 2017 tetrapod NMS G 2015.37.1 (Holotype: skull) and NMS G 2015.37.2 (right mandible)
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