Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 2.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: East Kirkton Limestone Formation (Upper Oil Shale Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• Units assumed based on East Kirkton locality (22725)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by S. P. Wood in the 1980s
Collection methods: salvage, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. A. Clack. 1994. Silvanerpeton miripedes, a new anthracosauroid from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84:369-376 [R. Benson/R. Benson/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 131670: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Silvanerpeton miripedes Clack 1994 tetrapod UMZC T1252 (natural mold of a skull and anterior postcranium)
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