Frederichthys-type locality (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Bearsden

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 4.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Goniatite E1 Zone other zone, Shrimp Member (Manse Burn Formation), Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by S. P. Wood in 1981 and 1982

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Repository: Hunterian Museum (HM)

Primary reference: M. I. Coates . 1993. New actinopterygian fish from the Namurian Manse Burn Formation of Bearsden, Scotland. Palaeontology 36(1):123-146 [M. Coates/M. Coates]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195565: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 13.08.2018, edited by Sophie Fasey

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
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Frederichthys musadentatus n. gen. n. sp. Coates 1993
GLAHM V8286a-b
Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
? Mesopoma smithsoni n. sp. Coates 1993 ray-finned fish
NMS 1981.63.43a, b (holotype); NMS 1981.63.31, 1981.63.40a, b, 1987.7.129a, b; GLAHM V8290a, b; GN 1022a, b, 1064; BMNH P.62373a, b; SPW 2001a, b, 2004, 2007, 2288, 2292a, b, 2295a, b