Lyme Regis, Lower Lias unspecified (BMNH): Sinemurian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Aegeridae
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Aeger laevis
(Blake 1876)
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Woods 1925 | |||||||||
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Coleiidae
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Coleia antiqua
Broderip 1835
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Woods 1925 | |||||||||
BMNH In.20678, I.3214, 45092 | ||||||||||
Insecta
- Coleoptera
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Elaterina liassica n. gen., n. sp.
Gardiner 1961
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Gardiner 1961 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH In 50351 (found in orbit of Osteorachis macrocephalus) (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Cephalopoda
- Loligosepiida
- Loligosepiidae
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Loligosepia bucklandi
(Voltz 1840)
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Donovan and von Boletzky 2014 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Acrodontidae
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Acrodus anningiae
Agassiz 1843
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10 specimens | |||||||||
BMNH 38125, 37371, P.2145-6, 39925, 32751, P.2137-8, 32752, P.3129 | ||||||||||
Acrodus nobilis
Agassiz 1837
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7 specimens | |||||||||
BMNH P.2141-2, P.2144, (Egerton coll.), 20573 (Johnson coll.), 35054 (purchased 1860), P.418 (presented by F. Seymour Hade, Esq., 1882), P.5872, | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Polyacrodontidae
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? Hybodus cloacinus
Quenstedt 1858
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Duffin 1993 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Polyacrodus cloacinus | ||||||||||
BMNH 39785 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Hybodus sp.
Agassiz 1834
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10 specimens | |||||||||
BMNH 42512, 38544, 39853, P.2365-6, P.5866, P.2166e (Egerton coll), P.5870, P.2166c, P.2166g | ||||||||||
Hybodus medius
Agassiz 1838
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11 specimens | |||||||||
BMNH P.340, 41103, P.2199, P.2200 (Egerton coll.), 36878-81, 38539-40, P.2792 | ||||||||||
Hybodus delabechei
(Charlesworth 1839)
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16 specimens | |||||||||
BMNH 39880 (purchased 1866), 40352 (purchased 1867), 35792 (purchased 1860), 20570, 20600-a (Johnson Coll.), 18989 (purchased 1854), 32750 (purchased 1857), 40092 (purchased 1866), P.2201-3 (Egerton coll.), 39784 (purchased 1862), 38103, 38127 (purchased 1864), P.2793 | ||||||||||
Hybodus raricostatus
Agassiz 1838
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4 specimens | |||||||||
BMNH 43972 (purchased 1872), 11262, 11282 (Mantell coll.), P.44380 | ||||||||||
Hybodus reticulatus
Agassiz 1837
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10 specimens | |||||||||
BMNH 40335, 2203a-b, P.2198, P.2198a-b, P.2208 (Egerton coll), P.5876, P.423 (Presented by F. Seymour Haden, Esq., 1882), P.6068 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Synechodontiformes
- Palaeospinacidae
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Palaeospinax priscus
(Agassiz 1838)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Palaeospinacidae | ||||||||||
BMNH P.1296-7, P.1298-9 (Egerton coll.), 47463 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Squalorajiformes
- Squalorajidae
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Squaloraja polyspondyla
(Agassiz 1836)
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Woodward 1891 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 43307, P.2276, 47402, 41353-4, 43970, P.6220, 41278 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Chimaeriformes
- Myriacanthidae
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Recurvacanthus uniserialis n. gen., n. sp.
Duffin 1981
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Duffin 1981 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH P.2850 | ||||||||||
Myriacanthus granulatus
Agassiz 1837
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Woodward 1891 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 43065, P.4876, 41382 | ||||||||||
Myriacanthus paradoxus
Agassiz 1836
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Woodward 1891 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH P.6095, P.6179, P.341, P.427, 37376, 41321, P.151 | ||||||||||
Acipenseriformes
- Chondrosteidae
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Chondrosteus pachyurus
Egerton 1858
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Woodward 1895 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 28714,28714a (purchased 1853) | ||||||||||
Chondrosteus acipenseroides
Egerton 1858
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Woodward 1895 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 38545 (purchased 1864), P7396, 39494 (1865), 35056 (1860), 39495 (1865) | ||||||||||
Ptycholepiformes
- Ptycholepididae
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Ptycholepis curtus n. sp.
Egerton 1854
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Woodward 1895 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH P.6334 (Beckles Coll.), 39493 (purchased 1865) | ||||||||||
Ptycholepis gracilis
Davis 1884
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Woodward 1895 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH 39864 (purchased 1866) | ||||||||||
Ptycholepis monilifer n. sp.
Woodward 1895
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Woodward 1895 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH 39868 (purchased 1866) | ||||||||||
Saurichthyiformes
- Saurichthyidae
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Belonorhynchus brevirostris n. sp.
Woodward 1895
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Woodward 1895 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Saurorhynchus brevirostris | ||||||||||
BMNH 40726 (purchased 1867), 39866 (1866), P4878 (1885), 43008 (1871) | ||||||||||
Belonorhynchus acutus
(Agassiz 1843)
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Woodward 1895 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH P428 (purchased 1882), 43054 (1871), 47462 (1876), 48007 (1887), 40499 (1867) | ||||||||||
= Saurorhynchus anningae
Maxwell and Stumpf 2017
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Maxwell and Stumpf 2017 | |||||||||
NHMUK PV P 428 only; others presumably Saurorhynchus sp. | ||||||||||
Ionoscopiformes
- Furidae
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Heterolepidotus latus n. sp.
Egerton 1872
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Woodward 1895 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 38118 (purchased 1864), P.7564 (history unknown), P.6395, P.6423 (Beckles Coll.), | ||||||||||
Eugnathus orthostomus
Agassiz 1842
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Woodward 1895 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Furo orthostomus | ||||||||||
BMNH 38119, 38120 (purchased 1864), 47043 (purchased 1875), 38735 (purchased 1865) | ||||||||||
Eugnathus minor
Agassiz 1839
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Woodward 1895 | 5 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 35055 (purchased 1860), P.6062 (presetned by F. Harford, Esq., 1889), P.868, P.3627, P.3634k (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.), | ||||||||||
Eugnathus philpotae
Agassiz 1839
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Woodward 1895 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 40350 (purchased 1867), P.7522 (Harford Coll.), 40349 (purchased 1867), 38104 (purchased 1864), 19483 (purchased 1845), 38122 (purchased 1864), P.2035, P.3683a (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.) | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Coccolepis liassicus
Woodward 1890
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Woodward 1890 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH 39865 (purchased 1866) | ||||||||||
Palaeonisciformes
- Palaeoniscidae
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Oxygnathus ornatus
Egerton 1854
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Woodward 1891 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 39860, 38734 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Caturidae
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Pachycormus heterurus
Agassiz 1839
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Woodward 1895 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Caturus heterurus | ||||||||||
BMNH 38121 (purchased 1864), P.120 (purchased 1880) | ||||||||||
Endactis agassizi
Egerton 1858
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Woodward 1895 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Caturus agassizi | ||||||||||
BMNH 41856 (purchased 1870) | ||||||||||
Pachycormus latipennis
Agassiz 1843
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Woodward 1895 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Caturus latipennis | ||||||||||
BMNH 38527 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Dapediidae
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Dapedium sp.
Leach 1822
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Rayner 1948 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH P.3541, P.11177 | ||||||||||
Dapedius granulatus
Agassiz 1835
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Woodward 1895 | 11 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Dapedium granulatum | ||||||||||
BMNH 19004a, 40351, P.5937, 35791, P.420 (Presented by F. Seymour Hade, Esq., 1882), 36046 (purchased 1861), 32494, P.7430, 40650 (purchased 1867), P.6063 (presented by F. Harford, Esq., 1889), 35794 (purchased 1860), | ||||||||||
Dapedius colei
Agassiz 1835
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Woodward 1895 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Dapedium colei | ||||||||||
BMNH P.7427, 38529, 39350, 37785, 35789, P.6397 (Beckles Coll.), 40651 | ||||||||||
Tetragonolepis magnevillei
Agassiz 1833
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Woodward 1895 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Dapedium magnevillei | ||||||||||
BMNH 36338 (purchased 1862), 35564, 35788 (purchased 1860), P.4877 (purchased 1885) | ||||||||||
Dapedius milloti
Sauvage 1891
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Woodward 1895 | 13 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Dapedium milloti | ||||||||||
BMNH 19486, 35793, 36258, P.6396 (Beckles Coll.), 37774, 40089, 42435 (presented by Kenneth Murchison, Esq., 1872), 44859 (presented by Benjamin Bright, Esq., 1873), P.350, 41214, P.7428, 39144 (Bowerbank Coll.), 36883 | ||||||||||
Dapedium politum
Leach 1822
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Woodward 1895 | 17 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 173 (Mantell Coll.), 18988, 48012, 35790, 39846, 41158, 19005, 44858 (presented by Benjamin Bright, Esq., 1873), 38530, P.6335 (Beckles Coll.), 44160, 38106, 30864, 39867, P.4879, 30862, P.6178 | ||||||||||
Tetragonolepis radiatus
Agassiz 1836
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Woodward 1895 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Dapedium radiatum | ||||||||||
BMNH 28716, 35559, 35722 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Dorsetichthyiformes
- Dorsetichthyidae
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Pholidophorus bechei
Agassiz 1837
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Nybelin 1966 | 23 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Dorsetichthys bechei | ||||||||||
BMNH 25276-77 (purchased 1850), 28281 (purchased 1853), 32403 (purchased 1857), 38162-39836 (purchased, 1864, 1866), 38107-38109 (purchased 1864), 19010 (purchased 1844), 39857-59 (purchased 1866), 38535 (purchased 1864), 36472-74, 37377 (purchased 1862-63), P.153-4 (purchased 1880), P.1051, P.1052d, P.3586c, P.3589a , P.6030 (presented by George Clifton, Esq., 1889), | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Pholidophoriformes
- Pholidophoridae
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Pholidolepis dorsetensis
Nybelin 1966
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Nybelin 1966 | 16 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 38164 (Pholidophorus caudalis in Woodward 1895), 35725, 38536, P.3662, P.44708, P.44709, P.259, 35562, 38537, 39862, 43007, P.939, P.939b, P.939c, P.4370, P.44707 | ||||||||||
Pholidophorus pachysomus
Egerton 1852
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Woodward 1895 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 28281 (purchased 1853), 35557 (purchased 1858), 39855 (purchased 1866), 36475 (purchased 1862), 38740 (purchased 1865), 18510-11 (purchased 1844) | ||||||||||
Pholidophoropsis maculata
Nybelin 1966
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Nybelin 1966 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH 43055, P.7582 | ||||||||||
Pholidophorus caudalis
Woodward 1895
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Woodward 1895 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Pholidophoropsis caudalis | ||||||||||
BMNH 43055 (purchased 1871), 35561-62, 35725 (purchased 1858-59), 38163-64, 38536-37 (purchased 1864), 39862, 39871 (purchased 1866), 43007 (purchased 1871), P.6067 (presented by F. Harford, Esq., 1889) | ||||||||||
Pholidophoroides limbata
(Agassiz 1833)
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Nybelin 1966 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH P.1047, P.1047a, P.3596, P.4422, 36472, 38531, 41906, P.1047b, P.1047c, P.3632, 38532, 27595 | ||||||||||
Pholidophorus limbatus
Agassiz 1833
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Woodward 1895 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Pholidophoroides limbata | ||||||||||
BMNH 36472 (purchased 1862), 38531-32 (purchased 1864), 41906 (purchased 1870), 48041 (John Brown Coll.), P.7582 (history unknown) | ||||||||||
Pholidophoroides crenulata
(Egerton 1843)
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Nybelin 1966 | 10 specimens | ||||||||
BMNH P.153, P.421, P.572, P.1046a, P.1046b, P.4415, 38110, 38739, 38738, P. 573 | ||||||||||
Pholidophorus crenulatus
Egerton 1843
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Woodward 1895 | 12 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Pholidophoroides crenulata | ||||||||||
BMNH 41857 (purchased 1870), 38110 (purchased 1864), P.421 (presented by F. Seymour Haden, Esq., 1882), 38534, 38730, 38738 (purchased 1864-65), 47461, 47466 (purchased 1876), 45008-10 (purchased 1877), 36313 (presented by Miss Wilson, 1862) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Rhomaleosauridae
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Thaumatosaurus arcuatus
(Owen 1840)
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Lydekker 1889 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Eurycleidus arcuatus | ||||||||||
BMNH 40094, 2124* (teeth) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Temnodontosaurus risor n. sp.
McGowan 1974
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McGowan 1974 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Temnodontosaurus platyodon | ||||||||||
Holotype BMNH 43971, complete skull (precise locality unknown) | ||||||||||
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, 2.6° 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. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Collection method comments: Includes all BMNH material where "Lyme Regis" is the only location information. |
Metadata
Database number: | 122153 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham, R. Benson, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Clapham, J. Karr, J. Tennant, R. Benson, P. Vazquez |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | paleoentomology,vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-12-17 14:19:55 | Last modified: | 2024-04-11 21:49:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-12-17 14:19:55 |
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] |
Secondary references:
51972 | D. T. Donovan and S. von Boletzky. 2014. Loligosepia (Cephalopoda: Coleoidea) from the Lower Jurassic of the Dorset coast, England. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 273:45-63 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
42967 | C. J. Duffin. 1981. The fin spine of a new Holocephalan from the Lower Jurassic of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England. Geobios 14(4):469-475 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/P. Vazquez] | |
46211 | C. J. Duffin. 1993. Teeth of Hybodus (Selachii) from the Early Jurassic of Lyme Regis, Dorset (southern England): preliminary note. Belgian Geological Survey, Professional Paper, Elasmobranches et Stratigraphie 264:45-52 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez] | |
37142 | B. G. Gardiner. 1961. New Rhaetic and Liassic Beetles. Palaeontology 4(1):87-89 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] | |
33960 | R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia [M. Carrano/H. Street/R. Benson] | |
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] | |
45402 | C. McGowan. 1974. A revision of the longipinnate ichthyosaurs of the Lower Jurassic of England, with descriptions of two new species (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria). Life Sciences Contribution of the Royal Ontario Museum 97 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
42252 | O. Nybelin. 1966. On certain Triassic and Liassic representatives of the family Pholidophoridae s. str. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 2(8):351-432 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham] | |
42278 | D. H. Rayner. 1948. The Structure of Certain Jurassic Holostean Fishes with Special Reference to Their Neurocrania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 233(601):287-345 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez] | |
81935 | H. Woods. 1925. A Monograph of the Fossil Macrurous Crustacea of England, Part I 1-16 [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] |