Bed 8, Seafield village, near Edinburgh (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 4.1° S, 0.2° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wardie shales Member (Gullane Formation), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; siderite

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NMS

Primary reference: S. Henderson, E. M. Dunne, S. A. Fasey and S. Giles. 2023. The early diversification of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): hypotheses, challenges and future prospects. Biological Reviews 98:284-315 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230444: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 21.06.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Nematoptychius greenocki Traquair 1866
NMS 1974.23.25a, b
Gonatodus punctatus Agassiz 1835
NMS 1974.23.23
 Palaeoniscimorpha -
"Eurynotus crenatus" = Notacmon crenatus
"Eurynotus crenatus" = Notacmon crenatus Gistel 1848
NMS 1974.23.22a, b