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: Black Ven Marl Member (Charmouth Mudstone Formation), Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Jonas; reposited in the BMNH
• Collected "many years ago" by a "well-known character, by name Jonas" and bought by Sir William Gray Egerton and Lord Enniskillen for a few shillings. The part and counterparts were separated and are in the Egerton and Enniskillen collections.
Primary reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1858. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British organic remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Decade IX, Supplement 2 Pl 1-Pl 10 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122159: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Centrolepis asper n. gen. n. sp.
Centrolepis asper n. gen. n. sp. Egerton 1858 |