Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 0.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Westbury Formation (Penarth Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• Bonebed is at the base of the Westbury Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, lenticular, sandy conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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 122366: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Saurichthys acuminatus" = Birgeria acuminata
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"Gyrolepis albertii" = Gyrolepis albertii2 Agassiz 1834
"Gyrolepis tenuistriatus" = Gyrolepis albertii2 Agassiz 1834 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Acrodus minimus" = Lissodus minimus1
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"Hybodus minor" = Rhomphaiodon minor1
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