Lyme Regis (Harrison collection) (Jurassic to of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 3.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 189.6 Ma)

• "Lower Lias"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Mr. Harrison

• Repository: Geological Survey Museum

Primary reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1861. Holophagus gulo description, in Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangment of the fishes of the Devonian Epoch. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Decade X 23:19 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 140080: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Holophagus gulo n. gen. n. sp.
Holophagus gulo n. gen. n. sp. Egerton 1861 coelacanth
GSM 28832