Cullercoats, North Shields (BMNH fish Coll.) (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Durham, United Kingdom (55.0° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Raisby Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "Marl-slate"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131709: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 28.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes - Janassidae
Janassa bituminosa1 Schlotheim 1820 chimaera
BMNH P.1373 (Egerton Coll.)
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
"Acentrophorus glaphyurus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus
"Acentrophorus glaphyurus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus Agassiz 1835
BMNH P.5140
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Palaeoniscus macrophthalmus2 Agassiz 1835
BMNH P354, P5139