Sandsend, near Whitby (Egerton coll) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122374: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Acipenseriformes - Chondrosteidae
Gyrosteus mirabilis Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish