Where: Ireland (54.1° N, 8.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° N, 5.1° E)

When: Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

• from the fine black shale of the yellow sandstone (or lowest portion of the carboniferous system)

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences)

•Mr. Griffith Collection

Primary reference: F. M'Coy. 1848. On some new Fossil Fish of the Carboniferous Period. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 2:1-10 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132818: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 28.08.2012

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