Barrow-on-Soar (Egerton Coll.) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.7° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 1.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• Possibly Wilmcote Limestone Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the BMNH

• Egerton Collection- A very extensive collection of fossil fishes, purchased from the executors of the late Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bard., M.P., F.R.S. (Trustee Brit. Museum), in 1882.

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 131892: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 01.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
"Pholidophorus hastingsiae" = Eugnathus hastingsiae, "Lepidotus serrulatus" = Heterolepidotus serrulatus
"Pholidophorus hastingsiae" = Eugnathus hastingsiae Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.887a, P.888
"Lepidotus serrulatus" = Heterolepidotus serrulatus Agassiz 1837 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.2007a
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Ptycholepis minor Egerton 1852 ray-finned fish
BMNH P.862
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
"Pycnodus liassicus n. sp." = Mesodon liassicus
"Pycnodus liassicus n. sp." = Mesodon liassicus Egerton 1854
BMNH 19864 (purchased 1846)
 Holostei - Dapediidae
"Tetragonolepis dorsalis" = Dapedium dorsalis
"Tetragonolepis dorsalis" = Dapedium dorsalis Agassiz 1835
BMNH P.467, P.1552-a
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus stricklandi Agassiz 1843
BMNH P.1055-6, P.1056a