Grand Etang (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (46.6° N, 61.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° S, 7.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pomquet Formation (Mabou Group), Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. L. Panchen. 1975. A new genus and species of anthracosaur amphibian from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland and the status of Pholidogaster pisciformis Huxley. Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 269:581-640 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176233: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 03.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda - Colosteidae
Greererpeton sp. Romer 1969 tetrapod
probably deposited at YPM-PU (Clack & Milner, 2015