Airdrie, Lanarkshire (BMNH) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 7.5° E)

When: Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Middle Coal Measures (Wesphalian in age)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 1-613 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137306: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 14.12.2012, edited by Sophie Fasey

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Xenacanthiformes - Xenacanthidae
Pleuracanthus laevissimus Agassiz 1837 elasmobranch
BMNH 42035 (purchased 1870)
 Eugeneodontiformes - Edestidae
"Ctenoptychius unilateralis" = Euctenius unilateralis
"Ctenoptychius unilateralis" = Euctenius unilateralis Barkas 1874 chimaera
BMNH 46026
Osteichthyes
 Rhizodontida -
Strepsodus sauroides Binney 1841 lobe-finned fish
BMNH P.364, 37323, 41999, 37957, 42000, P.4805, 38558-59
 Dipnoi - Sagenodontidae
Sagenodus inaequalis Owen 1867 lungfish
BMNH 39249-50
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus forsteri Hancock and Atthey 1872
NHMUK OR 37322