Barrow-on-Soar (BMNH collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 1.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• Possibly Wilmcote Limestone Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the BMNH

• BMNH fish where no collection information is given

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1890. Notes on some ganoid fishes from the English lower Lias. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 5:430-436 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122157: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria -
"Ichthyosaurus longirostris n. sp." = Eurhinosaurus longirostris1
"Ichthyosaurus longirostris n. sp." = Eurhinosaurus longirostris1 Mantell 1851 ichthyosaur
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Undina barroviensis Woodward 1890 coelacanth
BMNH 21335 (purchased 1847)
Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
"Lepidotus serrulatus" = Heterolepidotus serrulatus3
"Lepidotus serrulatus" = Heterolepidotus serrulatus3 Agassiz 1837 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.2007, P.3580a (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.), P.7565, 19488-a (presented by the Earl of Aylesford 1845)
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Ptycholepis minor n. sp.3 Egerton 1852 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.574, P.3694 (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.)
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Oxygnathus egertoni2 Egerton 1858
BMNH P585, P5854, P959x
Actinopteri
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus stricklandi3 Agassiz 1843
BMNH 18387, 18390-a (presented by Edward Charlesworth, Esq., 1844), 19859, 19861 (purchased 1846), 21334 (purchased 1847), 36312 (presented by Miss Wilson, 1862)
 Holostei - Dapediidae
"Tetragonolepis radiatus" = Dapedium radiatum3, "Tetragonolepis dorsalis" = Dapedium dorsalis3
"Tetragonolepis radiatus" = Dapedium radiatum3 Agassiz 1836
BMNH P.7423-26, 18789
"Tetragonolepis dorsalis" = Dapedium dorsalis3 Agassiz 1835
BMNH P.19430-31 (presented by the Earl of Aylesford, 1845), 40176 (purchased 1866), P.7432 (presented by Edward Gibson, Esq)