Airdrie, Lanarkshire (BMNH): Moscovian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Palaeonisciformes
- Platysomidae
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Platysomus forsteri
Hancock and Atthey 1872
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Woodward 1891 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Platysomus | ||||||||||
| NHMUK OR 37322 | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Strepsodus sauroides
(Binney 1841)
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Woodward 1891 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
| BMNH P.364, 37323, 41999, 37957, 42000, P.4805, 38558-59 | ||||||||||
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Dipnoi
- Sagenodontidae
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Sagenodus inaequalis
Owen 1867
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Woodward 1891 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| BMNH 39249-50 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Xenacanthiformes
- Xenacanthidae
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Pleuracanthus laevissimus
Agassiz 1837
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH 42035 (purchased 1870) | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Eugeneodontiformes
- Edestidae
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Ctenoptychius unilateralis
Barkas 1874
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Woodward 1891 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Euctenius unilateralis | ||||||||||
| BMNH 46026 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates: | 55.9° North, 4.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.7° North, 7.5° East |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Pennsylvanian |
| Stage: | Moscovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Moscovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 315.20000 - 307.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Middle Coal Measures (Wesphalian in age) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial 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: | 137306 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham, E. Dunne | Enterer: | P. Vazquez, S. Fasey |
| Modifier: | E. Dunne | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-12-14 10:37:20 | Last modified: | 2016-05-16 07:07:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-12-14 10:37:20 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 84604 | 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] | |
| 38758 | A. S. Woodward. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable ] |