Gin Head (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.1° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 0.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ballagan Formation, Tournaisian to Tournaisian (358.9 - 330.9 Ma)

• Early Carboniferous, late Tournaisian or earliest Visean

Environment/lithology: fluvial; green breccia

• On the foreshore at Gin Head, Tantallon [NT 5943 8531], fluvial, cross-bedded sandstone and laminated siltstone and interbedded limestone of the Ballagan Formation are overlain in the cliff by crudely bedded coarse volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks of the basal part of the Garleton Hills Volcanic Formation.
• Matrix is "a green- coloured carbonate breccia containing argillaceous pebbles".

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NMS G. 1977.43.3 was presented to the Royal Scottish Museum (as it then was) in 1977 by Dr J. S. Richardson, Honorary Curator of Burgh Museum, North Berwick. Together with six other specimens it comprises the Whitecross Collection, presumably deriving from that museum.

Primary reference: D. Chen, Y. Alavi, M. D. Brazeau, H. Blom, D. Millward and P. E. Ahlberg. 2018. A partial lower jaw of a tetrapod from ‘‘Romer’s Gap’’. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 108:55-65 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195402: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 07.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Tantallognathus woodi n. gen. n. sp.
Tantallognathus woodi n. gen. n. sp. Chen et al. 2018 tetrapod
NMS G. 1977.43.3 (holotype) a partial lower jaw