Where: England, United Kingdom (55.1° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 14.6° 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
Collected by King
• Repository: King collection, James Mitchell Museum, Galway, Ireland
Primary reference: W. King. 1850. Monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society 1-253 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90268: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Acrolepis sedgwickii Agassiz 1833 ray-finned fish | |
Actinopteri | |
"Palaeoniscus glaphyrus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus
"Palaeoniscus glaphyrus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus Agassiz 1835 | |
Osteichthyes | |
Platysomus striatus Agassiz 1833 | |
"Palaeoniscus comtus" = Palaeoniscum freieslebeni, "Palaeoniscus elegans" = Palaeoniscum elegans
"Palaeoniscus comtus" = Palaeoniscum freieslebeni Blainville 1818
"Palaeoniscus elegans" = Palaeoniscum elegans Sedgwick 1829 | |
"Pygopterus mandibularis" = Pygopterus humboldti
"Pygopterus mandibularis" = Pygopterus humboldti Agassiz 1833 |