Derbyshire: Mississippian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Pristicladodus dentatus M'Coy 1848
recombined as Dicrenodus dentatus
Chondrichthyes - Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Petrodus patelliformis McCoy 1848
Chondrichthyes - Cochliodontiformes - Cochliodontidae
Poecilodus foveolatus M'Coy 1848
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Petalodontidae
Petalodus aliformis
Petalodus acuminatus (Agassiz 1838)
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Belantseidae
Ctenoptychius serratus (Owen 1840)
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Janassidae
Climaxodus imbricatus M'Coy 1848
recombined as Janassa imbricatus
Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
Acrolepis hopkinsi M'Coy 1848
Dipnomorpha - Holoptychiidae
Holoptychius hopkinsii (M'Coy 1848)
M'Coy 1848
misspelling Acrolepis hopkinsi
Eurynotiformes - Amphicentridae
Chirodus pesranae M'Coy 1848
nomen nudum belonging to Chirodus
unclassified
? Leptacanthus junceus M'Coy 1848
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 53.2° North, 1.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.6° South, 1.1° East
Time
Period:Carboniferous
Key time interval:Mississippian
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 323.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Geological Museum of hte University of Cambridge (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences)
Metadata
Database number:132729
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-08-25 09:55:34 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:02:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-25 09:55:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

21664. F. M'Coy. 1855. A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks, with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils.Fasciculus 3, Mollusca and Palaeozoic fishes. British Palaeozoic Fossils, Part II. Palaeontology 407-666 [G. Webster/G. Webster]

Secondary references:

42751 F. M'Coy. 1848. On some new Fossil Fish of the Carboniferous Period. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 2:1-10 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]