near Ligatne on the Gauja River (Devonian of Latvia)

Where: Līgatne Municipality, Latvia (57.3° N, 25.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.9° S, 10.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sietini Member (Gauja Formation), Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Latvian Museum of Natural History (Latvijas Dabas Muzejs) = LDM

Primary reference: P. E. Ahlberg, E. Lukševis, and E. Mark-Kurik. 2000. A near-tetrapod from the Baltic Middle Devonian. Palaeontology 43(3):533-548 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179163: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 03.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapodomorpha -
Livoniana multidentata n. gen. n. sp.
Livoniana multidentata n. gen. n. sp. Ahlberg et al. 2000 lobe-finned fish
LDM 257/1413 (Holotype; consists of the anterior end of a left mandible, including parts of the dentary, anterior coronoid, prearticular, splenial and Meckelian bone)