Wayne Herbert Quarry (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Herefordshire, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 7.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 2 zone, Old Red Sandstone Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Lower Old Red Sandstone (Dittonian, zone II,2)

Environment/lithology: coastal; lenticular, green siltstone and coarse-grained, gray sandstone

• "Very fine, green silt-stone which formed a thin, restricted lenticular band in a rock of normal coarse grey sandstone."

Size class: macrofossils

• Articulated, intact fish

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: E. I. White. 1935. The ostracoderm Pteraspis Kner and the relationships of the agnathous vertebrates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 225(527):381-457 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201736: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 24.05.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Petromyzontida
 Cephalaspidiformes - Cephalaspidae
Cephalaspis sp.
Cephalaspis sp. Agassiz 1835
Acanthodii
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Acanthodii indet.
Acanthodii indet. spiny fish
At least two genera
Pteraspidomorpha
 Pteraspidiformes -
Pteraspis jackana, Pteraspis rostrata, Pteraspis cf. crouchi
Pteraspis rostrata Agassiz 1835
var. toombsi, new subspecies and var. virgoi, new subspecies
Pteraspis cf. crouchi Lankester 1865
 Pteraspidiformes - Rhinopteraspididae
Errivaspis waynensis
Errivaspis waynensis Blieck 1984
Pteraspis rostrata var. waynensis, new subspecies
 Traquairaspidiformes - Weigeltaspidae
Weigeltaspis sp.
Weigeltaspis sp. Brotzen 1933
Arachnida
 Scorpiones - Praearcturidae
Praearcturus gigas
Praearcturus gigas Woodward 1871 scorpion
Spelled Prearcturus gigas