Little animals in the Coal Swamp
 When one collects
plant fossils, Mother Earth provides sometimes a bonus in the shape of
an animal fossil. Below you will find a list of specimens, collected by
me or by other people.
Naturally the coal forests and swamps of the Carboniferous and the
Early Permian swarmed with animal life. Especially the little animals
must have been present in huge numbers. But apparently the
circumstances for fossilisation were unfavourable, for animal fossils
are extremely rare in relation to the abundance of plant fossils.
Contents
Spirorbis
sp. (Ibbenbüren)
Anthraconaia sp.
(Piesberg)
Carbonicola acuta
(South Limburg, NL)
Anthraconauta
minima (South Limburg, NL)
Insects
Breyeria harlemensis (South
Limburg, NL)
Anglopterum
magnificum (Crockhey, Lancashire)
Unidentified
insect wing (Crockhey, Lancashire)
Unidentified insect wing (SandyForth,
Lancashire)
New! Hasala
inferiorsaxonica (Piesberg)
Gallotupus
oudardi (Pas de Calais)
Maiocercus celticus (Ibbenbüren)
Maiocercus
celticus (Crockhey, Lancashire)
Anthracosiro
woodwardi (Crockhey, Lancashire)
Eophrynus sp. (South Limburg,
NL)
Aphantomartus pustulatus
(Piesberg)
Euproops rotundatus (Crockhey,
Lancashire)
Euproops
rotundatus (Liévin)
Euproops
sp. (Piesberg)
Euproops
sp. (Piesberg)
Euproops sp. (Piesberg)
New! Euproops sp. (Piesberg)
Euproops
sp. (Ibbenbüren)
Euproops
sp. (South Limburg, NL)
Euproops
danae (Mazon Creek)
Euproops
danae (Liévin)
Bellinurus
trilobitoides (Crockhey, Lancashire)
Bellinurus
sp. (Ibbenbüren)
Valloisella
lievinensis (Liévin)
Young
specimen of Euproops sp. (Pas de Calais)
Crustaceans
Palaeocaris (SandyForth)
Pygocephalus dubius (South
Limburg, NL)
Pleurojulus steuri (Manebach)
Unidentified
myriapods (Crockhey, Lancashire)
Unidentified myriapod (SandyForth, Lancashire)
Lauravolsella willemeni (South Limburg, NL)
Cockroaches
Phyloblatta
gaudryi (Graissessac)
Eurypterids
Adelophthalmus sp. (Mazon Creek)
Fisches
Egg
cases of sharks (Crockhey, Lancashire, Engeland)
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