Frwd Wood, Coed y Felin (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Flintshire, United Kingdom (53.2° N, 3.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 5.7° S, 4.2° E (Wright 2013)

When: Llwyneinion Half Yard 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: 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 233394: authorized by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland, entered by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland on 07.02.2024

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys sp. Traquair 1877
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
cf. Platysomus sp. Agassiz 1833
 Osteolepiformes - Megalichthyidae
Rhizodopsis sp. Young 1866 lobe-finned fish