Hirds Fox Farm, altitude 130 m (Permian of Greenland)

Where: Greenland (74.1° N, 20.7° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wegener Halvo Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "Martinia limestone"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Danish East Greenland expeditions in 1926-1927,1929

Primary reference: E. Nielsen. 1932. Permo-Carboniferous fishes from east Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland 86(3):1-63 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122145: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes -
Arctacanthus uncinatus n. gen. n. sp.
Arctacanthus uncinatus n. gen. n. sp. Nielsen 1932 chimaera
"Best preserved specimen"