"Copy" Coal Mine (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Cliviger

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.7° N, 2.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 8.2° S, 2.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation, Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• Burnley Coalfield, Lower Coal Measures

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. G. Gardiner. 1963. Certain Palaeoniscoid fishes and the evolution of the snout in Actinopterygians. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 8(6):255-325 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229797: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 23.03.2023

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Mesolepis wardi Young 1866
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
Mesonichthys aitkeni n. gen. n. sp.
Mesonichthys aitkeni n. gen. n. sp. Traquair 1886 ray-finned fish
Original holotype per Traquair 1901; lost