near Newsham, Northumberland (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)
Where: England, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 7.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Coal Measures Formation, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. P. Barkas. 1873. Illustrated Guide to the Fish, Amphibian, Reptilian and Supposed Mammalian Remains of the northumberland Carboniferous Strata. 117 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176252: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 04.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Osteichthyes | |
"Orthosaurus pachycephalus n. gen. n. sp." = Megalocephalus pachycephalus
"Orthosaurus pachycephalus n. gen. n. sp." = Megalocephalus pachycephalus Barkas 1873 tetrapod HMG 15.22 (holotype; nearly complete skull)
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| Megalocephalus macromma | |
"Megalocephalus macromma n. gen. n. sp." = Octagomphus woodi
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