Somerset Fish and Saurian bed (Bath Museum collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Harpoceras falciferum ammonoid zone, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• "Fish and Saurian bed" (exaratum subzone)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• a soft limestone with nodules that often surround the fossils.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Charles Moore

• Repository: Bath Museum

Primary reference: D. H. Rayner. 1948. The Structure of Certain Jurassic Holostean Fishes with Special Reference to Their Neurocrania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 233(601):287-345 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130759: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 13.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Caturidae
Caturus sp.
Caturus sp. Agassiz 1834 bowfin
BM 1288