Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• "Insect bed" of Purbeck strata

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, brown, calcareous mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by W. Brodie

• Found by Mr. W. Brodie, and now the property of Rev. P.B. Brodie of Rowington. [P.B. Brodie's insect collection is now in the BMNH, so this fish may be as well]

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 122162: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011

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