Ohmden, Würtemberg (BMNH coll) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.7° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 18.9° 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

Reposited in the BMNH

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

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131924: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 02.08.2012, edited by Roger Benson

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Teleosaurus minimus n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis
"Teleosaurus minimus n. sp." = Macrospondylus bollensis Cuvier 1824 marine crocodile
BMNH 37991: holotype skull, femur and osteoderms
Actinopteri
 Holostei - Dapediidae
"Tetragonolepis pholidotus" = Dapedius pholidotus
"Tetragonolepis pholidotus" = Dapedius pholidotus Agassiz 1832
BMNH 18512
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Tetragonolepis semicincta Bronn 1830
BMNH 16369 (purchased 1842), P.3626 (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.)
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
"Elops macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus, "Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus
"Elops macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH P.7569 (purchased)
"Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH 19646 (purchased 1845)
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858
BMNH P.7580-81 (Old Collection)
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides Bronn 1830
BMNH 22529a (purchased 1848)