Whitby (Egerton 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 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 122372: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.12.2011, edited by Priscilla Vazquez

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Leptolepis saltviciensis Simpson 1884
BMNH P.951, P.351, P.512, P.938
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858
BMNH P.1058, a-c
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
"Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus, "Pachycormus acutirostris" = Pachycormus macropterus
"Pachycormus curtus" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH P.2037
"Pachycormus acutirostris" = Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
BMNH P.884a-e
 Lepisosteiformes -
"Lepidotus semiserratus" = Lepidotes semiserratus
"Lepidotus semiserratus" = Lepidotes semiserratus Agassiz 1836 gar
BMNH P.2012, P.2012a, P.1127
Osteichthyes
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Ptycholepis bollensis Agassiz 1832 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.858-a, P.860-1, P.2023
 Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
"Belonorhynchus acutus" = Saurorhynchus acutus
"Belonorhynchus acutus" = Saurorhynchus acutus Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.961a
 Acipenseriformes - Chondrosteidae
Gyrosteus mirabilis Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish