Beith, North Ayshire (BMNH): Pennsylvanian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus acuminatus (Agassiz 1838)
2 specimens
BMNH 46035 (presented by Robert Craig, Esq., 1874), P.258 (purchased 1880)
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Pristodontidae
Pristodus benniei (Etheridge 1875)
1 specimen
BMNH 46046 (presented by Robert Craig, Esq., 1874)
Chondrichthyes - Chondrenchelyiformes - Chondrenchelyidae
Xystrodus striatus (M'Coy 1855)
1 specimen
recombined as Platyxystrodus striatus
BMNH 49042 (presented by Robert Craig, Esq., 1874)
Chondrichthyes - Cochliodontiformes - Cochliodontidae
Paecilodus jonesii Mcoy 1855
1 specimen
BMNH 46038 (Presented by Robert Craig, Esq., 1874)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 55.8° North, 4.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.6° North, 7.1° East
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4-5
Key time interval:Pennsylvanian
Age range of interval:323.20000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Carboniferous
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:137327
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Modifier:P. Vazquez Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-14 13:14:48 Last modified:2012-12-17 22:46:00
Access level:the public Released:2012-12-14 13:14:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43905. 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]