Toftshaw near Bradford (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.8° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 7.9° E)

When: Lower Coal Measures Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• "Black bed" appears correlative of Mickley 3 coal of the upper Langsettian.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. H. Huxley. 1869. On a new labyrinthodont from Bradford. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 25:309-311 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175174: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 04.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Recumbirostra - Molgophidae
"Lysorophus sp." = Brachydectes
"Lysorophus sp." = Brachydectes Cope 1868 amniote
G 152.04 housed at Hancock Musuem, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A single presacral vertebra.
 Tetrapoda - Eogyrinidae
Pholiderpeton scutigerum n. gen. n. sp.
Pholiderpeton scutigerum n. gen. n. sp. Huxley 1869 tetrapod