Abden
Geological Conservation Review site | GCR #2760 | Palaeontology | Carboniferous - Permian Fish / Amphibia
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Summary
The Abden Bone Bed is a thin bed of fish scales, teeth and bones within the black shales in the uppermost Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Visean P). These represent an interesting mixture of marine and estuarine forms with many selachian spines and teeth represented. Coelacanth bones from here, named as Rhabdoderma abdenense, probably belong to the species Diplocercides davisi a form from the Carboniferous Limestone of Armagh. Abden is also the type locality of the palaeoniscid Chirodus crassus.
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