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 William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen in 1830-1880; reposited in the BGS, BMNH

Primary reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1858. On Chondrosteus, an extinct genus of the Sturionidae, found in the Lias formation at Lyme Regis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148:871-885 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122155: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

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