Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.8° N, 6.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 2.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tournaisian to Tournaisian (358.9 - 330.9 Ma)
• "Early-mid Carboniferous (probably late Tournisian or late Visean" (Clack & Ahlberg, 2004)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Specimen GSM 28498 (Geological Survey Museum) housed at the British Geological Survey (BGS), Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, UK
Primary reference: J. A. Clack and P. E. Ahlberg. 2004. A new stem tetrapod from the Early Carboniferous of Northern Ireland. In G. Arratia, M. V. H. Wilson & R. Coutier (eds.), Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates 309-320 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173986: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 22.10.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Occidens portlocki n. gen. n. sp.
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