Whitby (Enniskillen coll) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122167: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
"Belonostomus acutus n. sp." = Saurorhynchus acutus
"Belonostomus acutus n. sp." = Saurorhynchus acutus Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
BMNH P4258
 Acipenseriformes - Chondrosteidae
Gyrosteus mirabilis Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Ptycholepis bollensis Agassiz 1832 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.3688, P.3691, P.3689, P.3690
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotus semiserratus" = Lepidotes semiserratus
"Lepidotus semiserratus" = Lepidotes semiserratus Agassiz 1836 gar
BMNH P.3528, P.3527, P.3528a
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Saurostomus esocinus, "Pachycormus acutirostris" = Pachycormus macropterus, "Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus
Saurostomus esocinus Agassiz 1833
BMNH P.3708, P.3709a
"Pachycormus acutirostris" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH P.3705a-e, P.3710c
"Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH P.3710, P.3700, P.3711, P.3699
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Leptolepis saltviciensis Simpson 1884
BMNH P.4389, P.3668
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858
BMNH P.4412, P.4406