Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 3.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• "Lower Lias" is only stratigraphic info given, but most fish come from the Bucklandi and Semicostatum zones of the Early Sinemurian, specially the "Fish Bed" and "Fish Bed shales" - both in the Semicostatum zone, but also from the "Saurian shales" and other lower beds in the Bucklandi zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton in 1830-1880; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: P. Egerton. 1854. On some new genera and species of fossil fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 13:433-436 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122154: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
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"Myriacanthus granulatus" = Myriacanthus granulatus7, "Ischyodus orthorhinus n. sp." = Myriacanthus granulatus4, Myriacanthus paradoxus7
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Osteichthyes | |
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Osteorachis macrocephalus8, Eulepidotus sauroides3, Heterolepidotus latus8, "Eugnathus orthostomus n. sp." = Furo orthostomus8, Eugnathus altus n. sp.8, Eugnathus minor8, Eugnathus philpotae8, "Lissolepis serratus" = Eugnathus serratus8
Heterolepidotus latus8 Egerton 1872 ray-finned fish BMNH P.2008, P.2020, P. 2009, P.1538, P.2011, P.2010, P.1542, P.1538a-b
"Eugnathus orthostomus n. sp." = Furo orthostomus8 Agassiz 1842 ray-finned fish BMNH P.465, P.2027, P.2034, P.509, P.865, P.870
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Chondrosteus pachyurus8, "Chondrosteus acipenseroides" = Chondrosteus acipenseroides8, "Chondrosteus crassior n. sp." = Chondrosteus acipenseroides2
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Actinopteri | |
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"Dapedius milloti" = Dapedium milloti8, "Dapedius colei" = Dapedium colei8, "Tetragonolepis radiatus n. sp." = Dapedium radiatum8, "Tetragonolepis magnevillei" = Dapedium magnevillei8, "Dapedius granulatus" = Dapedium granulatum8, Dapedium politum8
"Tetragonolepis magnevillei" = Dapedium magnevillei8 Agassiz 1833 BMNH P.1587, P.1535, P.1537a, P.1589a, P.1536, P.1557a, P.1556a, P.1592, P.515, P.1591
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"Conodus ferox" = Caturus ferox8, "Endactis agassizi n. gen. n. sp." = Caturus agassizi1, "Pachycormus heterurus" = Caturus heterurus8
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Pholidophorus pachysomus n. sp.8, "Pholidophorus limbatus" = Pholidophoroides limbata8, "Pholidophorus crenulatus n. sp." = Pholidophoroides crenulata8, "Pholidophorus caudalis" = Pholidophoropsis caudalis8
"Pholidophorus crenulatus n. sp." = Pholidophoroides crenulata8 Egerton 1843 BMNH P.572-3, P.1046a-b
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"Pholidophorus bechei" = Dorsetichthys bechei8
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Osteichthyes | |
Oxygnathus ornatus n. sp.
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Coelacanthimorpha | |
"Undina gulo" = Holophagus gulo7
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