Beith, North Ayshire (BMNH) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (55.8° N, 4.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 7.1° E)

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• Upper Carboniferous

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

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 137327: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 14.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Chondrenchelyiformes - Chondrenchelyidae
"Xystrodus striatus" = Platyxystrodus striatus
"Xystrodus striatus" = Platyxystrodus striatus M'Coy 1855 chimaera
BMNH 49042 (presented by Robert Craig, Esq., 1874)
 Cochliodontiformes - Cochliodontidae
Paecilodus jonesii Mcoy 1855 chimaera
BMNH 46038 (Presented by Robert Craig, Esq., 1874)
 Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus acuminatus Agassiz 1838 chimaera
BMNH 46035 (presented by Robert Craig, Esq., 1874), P.258 (purchased 1880)
 Petalodontiformes - Pristodontidae
Pristodus benniei Etheridge 1875 chimaera
BMNH 46046 (presented by Robert Craig, Esq., 1874)