Middridge (BMNH fish collection) (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (54.6° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Marl-slate

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, adpression

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 131704: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 28.07.2012, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
"Acentrophorus glaphyurus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus
"Acentrophorus glaphyurus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus Agassiz 1835
BMNH 35732
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Pygopteridae
Pygopterus humboldti1 Agassiz 1833
BMNH P.3416-a, 39698, 43267, P.3408-a, 36057
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
"Palaeoniscus longissimus" = Palaeoniscum freieslebeni1 Blainville 1818
BMNH 28613c, 43268-9, P3473
Palaeoniscus freieslebeni1 Blainville 1818
BMNH 36036-7, 36040, 40647, P.6296
Palaeoniscus macrophthalmus1 Agassiz 1835
BMNH P3484
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus gibbosus1, "Globulodus macrurus" = Platysomus macrurus1
Platysomus gibbosus1 Blainville 1818
BMNH P3498-a, P1606-7
"Globulodus macrurus" = Platysomus macrurus1 Agassiz 1833
BMNH P3495
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
Reticulolepis exsculpta1 Kurtze 1839 ray-finned fish
BMNH P5141
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
"Acrolepis sedgwicki" = Acrolepis sedgwickii2
"Acrolepis sedgwicki" = Acrolepis sedgwickii2 Agassiz 1833 ray-finned fish
NHMUK P.3407; NMS 1901.35.2 (Enniskillen Coll.)
Chondrichthyes
 Petalodontiformes - Janassidae
Janassa bituminosa1 Schlotheim 1820 chimaera
BMNH P.3033 (Enniskillen Coll.)