Where: Germany (48.7° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 10.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• 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 122370: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Saurichthys acuminatus" = Birgeria acuminata
"Saurichthys acuminatus" = Birgeria acuminata Agassiz 1843 |