Lyme Regis (Davis collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• "Lias" is only stratigraphic info given, but most fish come from the Bucklandi and Semicostatum zones of the Early Sinemurian, specially the "Fish Bed" and "Fish Bed shales" - both in the Semicostatum zone, but also from the "Saurian shales" and other lower beds in the Bucklandi zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Davis Collection, Halifax (according to Woodward)

Primary reference: J. W. Davis. 1885. On Heterolepidotus grandis, a fossil fish from the Lias. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 18:293-298 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153104: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 07.12.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
"Heterolepidotus grandis n. sp." = Osteorachis macrocephalus
"Heterolepidotus grandis n. sp." = Osteorachis macrocephalus Egerton 1868 ray-finned fish