Pitcorthie, Dunfermline (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Pitcorthie, Fifeshire

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 2.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Calciferous Sandstone Series

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Royal Scottish Museum (RSM)

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 175813: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 13.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Adelospondyli - Adelogyrinidae
Dolichopareias disjectus Watson 1929 lobe-finned fish
RSM 1881, 43, 37, impression of posterior part of a skull