Ardenrigg No. 6 Mine (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Wester Bracco

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.9° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 6.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Drumgray Member (Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation), Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• fossilised stems of Calamites suckowii and other vegetation

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; silty, carbonaceous shale and coal

• Light coloured, silty, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: F. M. Elliott. 2018. An early actinopterygian ichthyofauna from the Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation: Westphalian A (Bashkirian). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:351-394 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227256: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 27.09.2022, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii - Haplolepidae
Protohaplolepis limnades n. sp., Protohaplolepis isabellae n. sp., Protohaplolepis traquairi n. sp.1, Blairolepis wallacei n. sp., Millerolepis eleionomae2, Andrewsolepis lochlani n. gen. n. sp., Pyritocephalus youngii n. sp.1, Parahaplolepis elenae n. sp.1, Parahaplolepis poppaea n. sp., Parahaplolepis alexandrae n. sp.1, Braccohaplolepis fenestratum n. gen. n. sp.
Protohaplolepis limnades n. sp. Elliott 2014 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152371 (holotype)
Protohaplolepis isabellae n. sp. Elliott 2014 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152369 (holotype) GLAHM 152368
Protohaplolepis traquairi n. sp.1 Elliott 2014 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152375 (holotype)
Blairolepis wallacei n. sp. Elliott 2018 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152862-4
Millerolepis eleionomae2 Elliott 2014 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152372 (holotype); GLAHM 152861
Andrewsolepis lochlani n. gen. n. sp. Elliott 2018 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152858
Pyritocephalus youngii n. sp.1 Elliott 2014 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152374 (holotype)
Parahaplolepis elenae n. sp.1 Elliott 2014 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152373 (holotype)
Parahaplolepis poppaea n. sp. Elliott 2018 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152859 (holotype); GLAHM 152860
Parahaplolepis alexandrae n. sp.1 Elliott 2014 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152370 (holotype)
Braccohaplolepis fenestratum n. gen. n. sp. Elliott 2018 ray-finned fish
GLAHM 152857
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys egertoni
Elonichthys egertoni Egerton 1850 ray-finned fish
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
Mesonichthys aitkeni
Mesonichthys aitkeni Traquair 1886 ray-finned fish
 Elonichthyiformes - Gonatodidae
Pseudogonatodus aurulentum n. sp.
Pseudogonatodus aurulentum n. sp. Elliott 2018 ray-finned fish
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus parvulus, Platysomus forsteri, Mesolepis wardi
Platysomus parvulus Williamson 1849
Platysomus forsteri Hancock and Atthey 1872
Mesolepis wardi Young 1866
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys monensis, Rhadinichthys grossarti, Rhadinichthys hancocki, Rhadinichthys wardi, ? Rhadinichthys plumosum n. sp., ? Rhadinichthys ornatocephalum
Rhadinichthys grossarti Traquair 1878
? Rhadinichthys plumosum n. sp. Elliott 2018
GLAHM 152845 (holotype); GLAHM 152846
? Rhadinichthys ornatocephalum Elliott 2018
GLAHM 152853 (holotype)
 Eurynotiformes - Amphicentridae
Amphicentrum granulosum
Actinopteri
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Pseudohaplolepis argentatum n. gen. n. sp., Lanarkichthys gardineri n. gen. n. sp.
Pseudohaplolepis argentatum n. gen. n. sp. Elliott 2018
GLAHM 152854 (holotype)
Lanarkichthys gardineri n. gen. n. sp. Elliott 2018
GLAHM 152847 (holotype); GLAHM 152848
1Elliott 2014; 2Schultze et al. 2021