Bude Swimming Pool (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

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

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes wardi Egerton 1866 spiny fish
Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
"Elonichthys aitkeni" = Mesonichthys aitkeni
"Elonichthys aitkeni" = Mesonichthys aitkeni Traquair 1886 ray-finned fish
 Palaeonisciformes -
Cornuboniscus budensis White 1939
25 specimens, holotype NHMUK P.34507-8