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Animals from the Carboniferous Coal Swamps

Maiocercus celticus, complete 4 cm arachnid (Family Anthracomartidae). Westphalian A, Crock Hey opencast, Haydock, Lancashire. Phalangiotarbid, Mesotarbus peteri, Lancashire Mazon Adelophthalmus 9.jpg Mazon Adelophthalmus drawing 1.jpg Scorpion, Lancashire
Lancs Smithixerxes RS_26b.jpg Arthropleura sp. 8 cm fragment of tergite belonging to giant individual (c. 1.5 m) Westphalian A, shale above Haigh Yard Seam. Arthropleura limb, 6 cm. Polish Pennsylvanian. RS_24.jpg
Euproops rotundatus with encrusting microconchids. 40 mm wide, Crock Hey Open Cast, Wigan, Lancashire, England. Cyclus johnsoni. Upper Carboniferous. Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. 2.5 cm wide carapace Americlus_americanus.jpg Mazon_Halicyne.jpg Mazon Thylacocephalan1.jpg
Mazon monuran, 22 mm. Opsiomylacris sp, a large roachoid from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Kansas, 55 mm. Syscioblatta sp. roachoid with Dunbarella from Kinney Quarry, New Mexico Sysciophlebia sp. complete roachoid displaying colour patterns, Tinajas Member of the Atrasado Fm, Kinney Brick Pit, New Mexico Roachoid nymph from Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA.
Insect nymph, probably palaeodictyopteran. Westphalian A, Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK. Anglopterum magnificum, detail of wing. Westhaughton Brodia priscocincta, 49 mm insect wing showing pigmentation pattern. Family BRODIIDAE, Duckmantian, Cosely, Staffordshire Tullymonstrum gregarium, complete in 11 cm concretion. Francis Creek Shale, Pit 11, Peabody Coal Mine, Braidwood, Illinois. Sketch of complete Tullymonstrum gregarium. Francis Creek Shale, Pit 11, Peabody Coal Mine, Braidwood, Illinois.
Mazon Anthracomedusa turnbulli drawing 1.jpg Mazon Anthracomedusa turnbulli.jpg Dryptoscolex matthiesi, 10 cm worm in part and counterpart. Mazon Creek. A patch of kaolinite highlights the location of the jaw mazon Raphiophorus.jpg Paucijaculum samamithion, 28 mm chaetognath, Francis Creek Shale, Braidwood, Illinois.
Mazon Mazoglossus ramsdelli.jpg Mazon Creek Gilpichthys greeni, an agnathan fish, 65 mm long Mazon Creek Mayomyzon pieckoensis a 45 mm complete lamprey. Mazon Creek Acanthodes Ptyonius marshi, 75 mm long, Upper Carboniferous, Linton, Ohio, USA.
Ptyonius skull and front of body Megalichthys hibberti, 42 cm skull and forepart of body (skull is 30 cm long), Bullhouse Colliery, Millhouse Green, S Yorkshire Mazon Creek Elonichthys palaeoniscid Mazon Creek Esconichthys apopyris. An agnathan vertebrate of uncertain affinities, 60 mm long. Note the clearly preserved eyes. Rhabdoderma elegans, coelacanth, Mazon Creek.

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