Alyn Bank Colliery (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Flintshire, United Kingdom (53.1° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° S, 7.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Main Coal/Five Yard Coal Member (Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation), Westphalian B (316.9 - 314.6 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 233401: authorized by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, entered by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland on 07.02.2024

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Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
 Crossopterygii - Osteolepidae
Megalichthys hibberti Agassiz 1835
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys sp. Traquair 1877