A fossil rich Lower Carboniferous site in Scotland

[Halichoeres]

From a part of the fossil record that is poorly sampled--after the end-Devonian mass extinction but before later Mississippian deposits--here's a rich fauna from a freshwater floodplain in what is now Scotland. It includes lots of rhizodonts, tetrapods, freshwater chimaeras, 'acanthodians', ostracods, lungfishes, and archaic actinopterygians.

Here's an artist's reconstruction of the environment (drawing by Yasmin Yonan):


Open access! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12395