Ferry Hill (BMNH coll.) (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Ferryhill

Where: Durham, United Kingdom (54.7° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.2° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Raisby Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "Marl-slate"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

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 131707: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 28.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
"Acrolepis sedgwicki" = Acrolepis sedgwickii
"Acrolepis sedgwicki" = Acrolepis sedgwickii Agassiz 1833 ray-finned fish
BMNH P3407, P553, P3406
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Coelacanthidae
Coelacanthus granulatus Agassiz 1839 coelacanth
BMNH P.3338, P.554-5, P.3335
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
"Acentrophorus glaphyurus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus
"Acentrophorus glaphyurus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus Agassiz 1835
BMNH P.52, P.355, 41317
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus gibbosus Blainville 1818
BMNH 39160, P556, P3494
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Palaeoniscus macrophthalmus Agassiz 1835
BMNH 28613d, 35736-7, P.1025
Palaeoniscus freieslebeni Blainville 1818
BMNH 28613a, 25963, P.1025, P.1028, P.352-3, P.3425-6, P.3450
 Palaeonisciformes - Pygopteridae
Pygopterus humboldti Agassiz 1833
BMNH P.3415, 28613, P.552