Castlehill, near Carluke (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 6.4° E)

When: Lower Coal Measures Formation, Westphalian A (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. H. Beaumont. 1977. Cranial morphology of the Loxommatidae (Amphibia: Labyrinthodontia). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 280:29-101 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175922: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 19.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Baphetoidea - Baphetidae
Loxomma rankini n. sp. Beaumont 1977 tetrapod
GLAHM V2023 (holotype) skull and mandibular fragment
 Tetrapoda - Eogyrinidae
Pholiderpeton scutigerum Huxley 1869 tetrapod
Specimens at RSM and Hunterian Mus.