Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 0.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hopetoun Member (West Lothian Oil Shale Formation), Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• Part of the Dunnet Shale of the Oil Shale Group (now the Strathclyde Group). PJW: Dunnet Shale is now aa bed within the Hopetoun Member of the West Lothian Oil-Shale Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. M. S. Watson. 1929. The Carboniferous Amphibia of Scotland. Palaeontologia Hungarica 1:223-252 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175811: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 13.01.2016, edited by Sophie Fasey

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