Soleure, Solothorn (BMNH Egerton coll.) (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.2° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 16.4° E)

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S.; reposited in the BMNH

• A very extensive collection of fossil fishes, purchased from the executors of the late Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S. (Trustee Brit Mus.), in 1882.

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 131886: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 01.08.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Machimosaurus sp. marine crocodile
Precise locality unknown
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Teleosaurus picteti marine crocodile
Precise locality unknown
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotes laevis" = Scheenstia laevis
"Lepidotes laevis" = Scheenstia laevis Agassiz 1837 gar
BMNH P.1108