Ohmden, Würtemberg (Egerton coll) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.7° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 17.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton; reposited in the BMNH

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 122170: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
"Palaeospinax egertoni n. sp." = Synechodus egertoni2
"Palaeospinax egertoni n. sp." = Synechodus egertoni2 Woodward 1889 elasmobranch
BMNH P.1132
Osteichthyes
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Saurorhynchus sp.1 Reis 1892 ray-finned fish
BMNH P960, P960a, P960b (four heads)
Actinopteri
 Holostei - Dapediidae
"Tetragonolepis pholidotus" = Dapedius pholidotus
"Tetragonolepis pholidotus" = Dapedius pholidotus Agassiz 1832
BMNH P.1574a, P.1563b, P.1573
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotus elvensis" = Lepidotes elvensis
"Lepidotus elvensis" = Lepidotes elvensis de Blainville 1818 gar
BMNH P.2054, P. 3529b., P.2014
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
"Esox incognitus" = Euthynotus incognitus, Saurostomus esocinus, "Elops macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus, "Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus
"Esox incognitus" = Euthynotus incognitus Blainville 1818
BMNH P.2044, P.881a
Saurostomus esocinus Agassiz 1833
BMNH P.7572, P.2042
"Elops macropterus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH P.2045
"Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH P.881, P.2045a-b
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides
"Leptolepis bronni" = Leptolepis coryphaenoides Bronn 1830
BMNH P.945, P.950, P.946
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus hartmanni n. sp. Egerton 1843
BMNH P.605
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858
BMNH P.1065, a-c