Swanwick Colliery (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.1° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Coal Measures Group, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Some specimens in NHMUK collection

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 176254: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 04.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda - Eogyrinidae
Pholiderpeton scutigerum Huxley 1869 tetrapod
 Baphetoidea - Baphetidae
"Orthosaurus pachycephalus" = Megalocephalus pachycephalus
"Orthosaurus pachycephalus" = Megalocephalus pachycephalus Barkas 1873 tetrapod
NHMUK specimen (cranial remains)
Amphibia
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"Palaeogyrinus decorus" = Palaeoherpeton decorum
"Palaeogyrinus decorus" = Palaeoherpeton decorum Watson 1926 tetrapod
Attributed specimen