Quarter, near Hamilton, Strathclyde Region (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° N, 7.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Westphalian (318.7 - 307.5 Ma)

• Airdie or "Mushet's" Black Bank Ironstone. Middle Coal Measures, Westphalian, Silesian.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. R. Smithson. 1985. Scottish Carboniferous amphibian localities. Scottish Journal of Geology 21(2):123-142 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176242: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 03.02.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Baphetoidea - Baphetidae
"Pteroplax brevicornis n. sp." = Megalocephalus brevicornis, Baphetes kirkbyi
"Pteroplax brevicornis n. sp." = Megalocephalus brevicornis Thomson and Young 1870 tetrapod
Specimens lost in fire at Kilmarnock Museum in 1909
Baphetes kirkbyi Watson 1929 tetrapod
Specimens lost in fire at Kilmarnock Museum in 1909
 Tetrapoda - Eogyrinidae
Pholiderpeton sp.
Pholiderpeton sp. Huxley 1869 tetrapod
Specimens lost in fire at Kilmarnock Museum in 1909
 Tetrapoda - Anthracosauridae
Anthracosaurus russelli
Anthracosaurus russelli Huxley 1863 tetrapod
Specimens lost in fire at Kilmarnock Museum in 1909