Queensferry beds, Seafield village, near Edinburgh (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.6° S, 1.7° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calders Member (West Lothian Oil Shale Formation), Asbian to Asbian (340.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Hailes shale

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

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 230446: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 21.06.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeoniscimorpha -
"Eurynotus crenatus" = Notacmon crenatus
"Eurynotus crenatus" = Notacmon crenatus Gistel 1848
NHMUK P.59169; NHMUK P.57530