Halle, Saxony (BMNH): Ladinian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Hybodus polycyphus Agassiz 1843
1 specimen
recombined as Polyacrodus polycyphus
BMNH 28481 (purchased 1853)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 9.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.9° North, 16.3° East
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Ladinian
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Muschelkalk or Lettenkohl
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:137656
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-18 13:07:40 Last modified:2012-12-17 20:07:40
Access level:the public Released:2012-12-18 13:07:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43905. A. S. Woodward. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 1-613 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]