Dalemoor Rake Ironstone, Stanton-by-Dale (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Stanton by Dale

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 7.5° E)

When: Dalemoor Rake Ironstone Member (Lower Coal Measures Formation), Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• Sedgwick Museum

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230546: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 30.06.2023, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys binneyi2 Traquair 1888 ray-finned fish
Specimen lost, locality unrecorded, but this is the likely source
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
"Elonichthys aitkeni" = Mesonichthys aitkeni
"Elonichthys aitkeni" = Mesonichthys aitkeni Traquair 1886 ray-finned fish
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge; NHM (11B); NHMUK P.30578-9, P.30575
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus tenuistriatus1 Traquair 1879
NHMUK P.8029