Lyme Regis, Egerton collection: Sinemurian, United Kingdom
collected by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton 1830-1880

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Undina gulo (Egerton 1861)
Woodward 1891 4 specimens
original and current combination Holophagus gulo
BMNH P.3344, P.2022-a, P.875
Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
Osteorachis macrocephalus Egerton 1868
Woodward 1895 2 specimens
BMNH P.876x, P.875
Eulepidotus sauroides Egerton 1868
Egerton 1868 1 specimen
Heterolepidotus latus Egerton 1872
Woodward 1895 9 specimens
BMNH P.2008, P.2020, P. 2009, P.1538, P.2011, P.2010, P.1542, P.1538a-b
Eugnathus altus n. sp. Woodward 1895
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH P.2029
Eugnathus minor Agassiz 1839
Woodward 1895 6 specimens
BMNH P.2030, P.2031-33, P.871, P.864
Eugnathus philpotae Agassiz 1839
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
BMNH P.559, P.2019, P.2021, P.1543
Lissolepis serratus Davis 1884
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
recombined as Eugnathus serratus
BMNH P.2028
Eugnathus orthostomus n. sp. Agassiz 1842
Woodward 1895 6 specimens
recombined as Furo orthostomus
BMNH P.465, P.2027, P.2034, P.509, P.865, P.870
Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Ptycholepis gracilis Davis 1884
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH P.859
Ptycholepis curtus Egerton 1854
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH P.859a
Acipenseriformes - Chondrosteidae
Chondrosteus pachyurus Egerton 1858
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
BMNH P.7398, 28714, 28714a
Chondrosteus acipenseroides Egerton 1858
Woodward 1895 6 specimens
Chondrosteus crassior n. sp. Egerton 1858
Egerton 1858 1 specimen
synonym of Chondrosteus acipenseroides
Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Belonorhynchus acutus (Agassiz 1843)
Woodward 1895 7 specimens
BMNH P965, P935a, P964, P965b, P965c, P513, P965d
    = Saurorhynchus sp. Reis 1892
Maxwell and Stumpf 2017
unclassified
Coccolepis liassicus Woodward 1890
Woodward 1890 1 specimen
BMNH P887
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Oxygnathus ornatus n. sp. Egerton 1854
6 specimens
BMNH P.3485, P.557, P.872, P.2025-6, P.874
Actinopteri - Dorsetichthyiformes - Dorsetichthyidae
Pholidophorus bechei Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1895 7 specimens
recombined as Dorsetichthys bechei
BMNH P.1052a-g
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus limbatus Agassiz 1833
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
recombined as Pholidophoroides limbata
BMNH P.1047, a-c
Pholidophorus crenulatus n. sp. Egerton 1843
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
recombined as Pholidophoroides crenulata
BMNH P.572-3, P.1046a-b
Pholidophorus pachysomus n. sp. Egerton 1852
Woodward 1895 7 specimens
BMNH P.571, P.1049a-b, P.1052, P.1049c-d, P.7579
Pholidophorus caudalis Woodward 1895
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
recombined as Pholidophoropsis caudalis
BMNH P.939, a-c
Actinopteri - Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae
Platysiagum sclerocephalum Woodward 1895
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
BMNH P.1333-34, P.558
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Caturidae
Conodus ferox Agassiz 1844
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
recombined as Caturus ferox
BMNH P.514
Endactis agassizi n. gen., n. sp. Egerton 1858
Egerton 1858 1 specimen
recombined as Caturus agassizi
BMNH P567
Pachycormus heterurus Agassiz 1839
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
recombined as Caturus heterurus
BMNH P.897, P.2036, P.898a, P.898c
Actinopteri - Dapediidae
Tetragonolepis radiatus n. sp. Agassiz 1836
Woodward 1895 2 specimens
recombined as Dapedium radiatum
BMNH P.468, P.1564
Dapedius colei Agassiz 1835
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
recombined as Dapedium colei
BMNH P.1569-70, P.1557, P.1561
Dapedius milloti Sauvage 1891
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
recombined as Dapedium milloti
BMNH P.2053, P.1592, P.1589
Dapedium politum Leach 1822
Woodward 1895 9 specimens
BMNH P.1575, P.1572, P.1576, P.1582-85, P.1554a, P.1588a
Dapedius granulatus Agassiz 1835
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
recombined as Dapedium granulatum
BMNH P.1577, P.1578, P.1579, P.1555
Tetragonolepis magnevillei Agassiz 1833
Woodward 1895 10 specimens
recombined as Dapedium magnevillei
BMNH P.1587, P.1535, P.1537a, P.1589a, P.1536, P.1557a, P.1556a, P.1592, P.515, P.1591
Chondrichthyes - Squalorajiformes - Squalorajidae
Squaloraja tenuispina n. sp. Woodward 1886
Woodward 1891 1 specimen
BMNH P.2081
Squaloraja polyspondyla (Agassiz 1836)
Woodward 1891 2 specimens
BMNH P.2079-80
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae
Myriacanthus paradoxus Agassiz 1836
Woodward 1891 3 specimens
BMNH P.1736-7, P.477
Myriacanthus granulatus Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1891 1 specimen
BMNH P.1158
Ischyodus orthorhinus n. sp. Egerton 1871
Egerton 1871 1 specimen
synonym of Myriacanthus granulatus
BMNH 43050
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.2° North, 3.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Lower 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.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton Collection dates:1830-1880
Metadata
Database number:122154
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-12-17 14:33:04 Last modified:2022-06-17 23:19:56
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-17 14:33:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43798. P. Egerton. 1854. On some new genera and species of fossil fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 13:433-436 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

45217 P. G. Egerton. 1868. On the characters of some new fossil fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 24:499-505 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45024 P. G. Egerton. 1871. On a new chimaeroid fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis (Ischyodus orthorhinus). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 27:275-279 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38892 P. M. G. Egerton. 1858. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British organic remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Decade IX, Supplement 2 Pl 1-Pl 10 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38982 P. M. G. Egerton. 1858. On Chondrosteus, an extinct genus of the Sturionidae, found in the Lias formation at Lyme Regis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148:871-885 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
62620 E. E. Maxwell and S. Stumpf. 2017. Revision of Saurorhynchus (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from the Early Jurassic of England and Germany. European Journal of Taxonomy 321:1-29 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38983 R. H. Traquair. 1887. Notes on Chondrosteus acipenseroides, Agassiz. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 4:248-257 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45030 A. S. Woodward. 1889. On the Myriacanthidae - an extinct family of chimaeroid fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 4:275-280 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38891 A. S. Woodward. 1890. Notes on some ganoid fishes from the English lower Lias. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 5:430-436 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38758 A. S. Woodward. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable ]
38893 A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]