Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 5.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Coal Measures Group, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: NHMUK collections
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 176261: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 04.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Orthosaurus pachycephalus" = Megalocephalus pachycephalus
"Orthosaurus pachycephalus" = Megalocephalus pachycephalus Barkas 1873 tetrapod NHMUK R.306 (lower jaw)
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