Also known as Calderhead
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 3.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 3.1° S, 3.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower/Upper Drumgray Member (Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation), Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; lithified, silty, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by R. Dunlop
• Repository: Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 227258: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 27.09.2022
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Actinopteri | |
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Pseudohaplolepis argentatum Elliott 2018 | |
| Osteichthyes | |
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Amphicentrum granulosum Young 1866 | |
Rhadinichthys wardi, Rhadinichthys monensis, Rhadinichthys grossarti, ? Rhadinichthys ornatocephalum
Rhadinichthys wardi Ward 1875
Rhadinichthys monensis Egerton 1850
Rhadinichthys grossarti Traquair 1878
? Rhadinichthys ornatocephalum Elliott 2018 | |
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Platysomus forsteri Hancock and Atthey 1872
Platysomus parvulus Williamson 1849
Mesolepis wardi Young 1866 | |
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Elonichthys egertoni Egerton 1850 ray-finned fish
Elonichthys semistriatus Traquair 1877 ray-finned fish | |
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Mesonichthys aitkeni Traquair 1886 ray-finned fish | |
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Pseudogonatodus aurulentum Elliott 2018 ray-finned fish | |