Steeplehouse Quarry, Bolehill, Wirksworth (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.1° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° S, 3.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cawdor Formation, Asbian to Asbian (339.4 - 326.4 Ma)

• Upper Visean

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone and lithified, black shale

• Interbedded crinoidal limestone and black shale bands

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

• Limestone processed with formic acid, shale with repeated drying, paraffin oil, boiling water.

Primary reference: C. J. Duffin and D. J. Ward. 1983. Neoselachian sharks' teeth from the Lower Carboniferous of Britain and the Lower Permian of the USA. Palaeontology 26(1):93-110 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90278: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009, edited by Mark Bell

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes -
"Lissodus wirksworthensis n. sp." = Reesodus wirksworthensis
"Lissodus wirksworthensis n. sp." = Reesodus wirksworthensis Duffin 1985 elasmobranch
Holotype: P. 60740 (BM(NH)); 28 fragmentary teeth, P60739-60766
 Euselachii - Anachronistidae
"Anachronistes fordi n. sp." = Cooleyella fordi
"Anachronistes fordi n. sp." = Cooleyella fordi Duffin and Ward 1983 elasmobranch