Swanage (BMNH fish coll.) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Purbeck Group, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 131852: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 31.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Halecomorphi - Ophiopsiidae
Ophiopsis dorsalis n. sp., "Ophiopsis penicillata" = Ophiopsis penicillatus
Ophiopsis dorsalis n. sp. Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.466 (Egerton Coll.), P.7496 (purchased)
"Ophiopsis penicillata" = Ophiopsis penicillatus Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.7433 (Old collection)
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Macrosemiidae
Histionotus angularis n. sp. Egerton 1854
BMNH P.577 (Egerton Coll.), P.3614 (Enniskillen Coll.), P.5935 (purchased 1889), P.3614 (Enniskillen Coll.)
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotus minor Agassiz 1833 gar
BMNH 19006 (purchased 1845), 41157 (purchased 1868), 42308 (purchased 1870), P.5936 (purchased 1889), P.6370 (Beckles Coll.), 45903 (purchased 1874), P.4220 (Enniskillen Coll.), P.4440 (Enniskillen Coll.), P.2006-a (Egerton Coll.), 8047 (Egerton Coll.), 8047 (Mantell Coll.), P.6371 (Beckles Coll.), P.5591 (Harford Coll.), P.4441 (Enniskillen Coll.), P.1118 (Egerton Coll.), P.6374 (Beckles Coll.), P.1121 (Egerton Coll.), P.7414 (Enniskillen Coll.), 21974, 24816 (Purchased 1848, 1849), P.1121a (Egerton Coll.), 48371 (Beckles Coll.), P.1119 (Egerton Coll.), P.6373 (Beckles Coll.), 21974a (Purchased 1848), 40655 (Purchased 1867), P.6372 (Beckles Coll.)