Ilminster, Somerset (BMNH Coll.) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.9° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 8.8° E)

When: Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• Upper Lias

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132036: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 05.08.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
"Elops macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus
"Elops macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH P.7570
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858
BMNH P.3704 (Enniskillen Coll.)
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides Bronn 1830
BMNH P.3667 (Enniskillen Coll.)
Insecta
 Coleoptera -
Coleopteron sp. Handlirsch 1906 beetle
Note in Goss, 1878