Species: mirus WATSON, 1926
Etymology:

Lectotype: NMS G 1950.56.3

Locality: Loanhead, near Edinburgh, mid-Lothian Province, Scotland, northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Limestone Coal Group, No. 2. Ironstone, Rumbles Ironstone, called Loanhead Ironstone 2.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Namurian, Late Carboniferous.

Material: A nearly complete skull.

Syntype: 1950.56.4: Right side of a small part of the left of the skull roof.

Syntype: 1886.86.56: A flattened Skull.

Referred material:

NMS G 1950.56.5: Skull table and right cheek region, associated with part of the right jaw ramus.

NMS G 1885.50.73: Jaw fragment with teeth.

NMS G 1885.50.74: Jaw fragment with teeth.

NMS G 1886.90.8: Maxilla.

Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, SM E19868: Anterior part of paired jaw rami.

RSM, 4 jaws.

 

MILNER, SMITHSON, MILNER, COATES & ROLFE, 1986

Locality: Dora opencast site, near Cowdenbeath, Fife Province, Scotland, northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Dora Bone Bed, (Above Little Splint Coal), Limestone Coal Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Namurian A, Pendleian Stage, Lower Lower Namurian, Lower Silesian Series, Serpukhovian Epoch, Early Carboniferous (Early Late Mississippian).

Material:

BMNH R 10951: anterior part of right jaw ramus.

NMS G 1993.56.3: Isolated frontal bones.

NMS G 1994.103.1: Anterior part of jaw ramus.

 

SMITHSON, 1985

Locality: Ramsay colliery, Loanhead, Edinburgh, mid-Lothian Province, Scotland, northern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Rumbles Ironstone/Burghlee Ironstone, Limestone Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Lower Namurian, Lower Silesian Series, Pendleian Stage, Serpukhovian Epoch, Early Carboniferous (Early Late Mississippian).

Material:

Number: Not given:

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Species: pereger BAIRD, 1962
Etymology:

Holotype: YPM VPPU 17182

Locality: Beach of cove between Point Edward and Keating Cove, 4 miles northwest of Sydney, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia Province, Canada.

Horizon: Point Edward Formation, Canso group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Probably Lower Namurian, Lower Silesian Series, Serpukhovian Epoch, Early Carboniferous (Late Mississippian).

Material: Fragmentary skull.

Referred material:

YPM VPPU 19518: Interclavicle.

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Species: marsdeni SMITHSON, BROWNE, DAVIES, MARSHALL, MILLWARD, WALSH, & CLACK, 2017
Etymology: In honor of John Marsden who discovered the new locality and helped with the recovery of the material.

Holotype: NMS G 2015.37.1

Locality: East Fife Coast, betwen St. Andrews and Fife Ness, Fife Province, Scotland.

Horizon: Anstruther Formation, Strathclyde Group.

Biostratigraphy: tessallatus-campyloptera palynozone.

Age: Asbian Stage, Early Late Visean Epoch, Early Carboniferous (middle Mississippian).

Material: Fragmentary skull.

Referred material:

NMS G 2015.37.2: Right mandible.