Where: France (49.2° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 10.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Great Oolite Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Tesson; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Tesson Collection, purchased 1857
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 131997: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 04.08.2012, edited by Roger Benson, Jonathan Tennant and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Ischyodus emarginatus4 Egerton 1843 plownose chimaera BMNH 32545 (Tesson coll.), 41307 (purchased 1869), 44830 (presented by Benjamin Bright, Esq., 1873)
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Actinopteri | |
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"Pycnodus rugulosus" = Mesodon rugulosus
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Reptilia | |
"Steneosaurus megistorhynchus n. sp." = Seldsienean megistorhynchus3 Saint-Hilaire 1866 marine crocodile
Teleidosaurus joberti n. sp.1 Eudes-Deslongchamps 1867 marine crocodile BMNH 32612 (Tesson Coll.), cast of portion of right ramus, original is part of type specimen
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Pristacanthus securis | |
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