Wepre Dingle, Shotton (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Flintshire, United Kingdom (53.2° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 7.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Wall and Bench Coal Member (Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation), Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; 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 233398: 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
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus sp. Agassiz 1833
Chondrichthyes
 Cochliodontiformes - Cochliodontidae
Pleuroplax rankinei Hancock and Atthey 1843 chimaera
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes wardi Egerton 1866 spiny fish