Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (55.0° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Hancock Museum, Tyne and Wear (NEWHM)

Primary reference: J. A. Clack. 2003. A new baphetid (stem tetrapod) from the Upper Carboniferous of Tyne and Wear, U.K, and the evolution of the tetrapod occiput. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 40(4):483-498 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176067: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 25.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Baphetoidea - Baphetidae
Kyrinion martilli n. gen. n. sp.
Kyrinion martilli n. gen. n. sp. Clack 2003 tetrapod
NEWHM 2000.H845 (holotype; skull)