Where: Cornwall, United Kingdom (50.8° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° S, 6.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Culm Measures Formation, Bashkirian to Bashkirian (323.2 - 307.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. White. 1939. A new Type of Palaeoniscoid Fish, with Remarks on the Evolution of the Actinopterygian Pectoral Fins. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London B109:41-61 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232960: authorized by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, entered by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland on 09.01.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Acanthodes wardi Egerton 1866 spiny fish | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Elonichthys aitkeni" = Mesonichthys aitkeni
"Elonichthys aitkeni" = Mesonichthys aitkeni Traquair 1886 ray-finned fish | |
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