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