Leeswood Valley Colliery (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Denbeighshire, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 7.2° E)

When: Half-Yard Coal Seam Member (Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation), Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• Twelve feet above the Chwarelau Coal (which is in the Gwespyr Sandstone Formation of Millstone Grit), Llwyneinion Half Yard in Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified coal

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Wood. 1936. Fish Remains from the North Wales Coalfield. Geological Magazine 73:481-488 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 233392: authorized by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, entered by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland on 07.02.2024

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish
 Eurynotiformes - Amphicentridae
Amphicentrum striatum Hancock and Atthey 1872
Originally Cheirodus striatus
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys sp. Traquair 1877
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus sp. Agassiz 1833