Where: England, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 9.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Great Oolite Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• Listed as Inferior Oolite, but other authors suggest that it is likely the Great Oolite based on the matrix of the fossil.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in the 1840s; 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 131982: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 04.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Pholidophorus flesherii" = Ophiopsis flesheri
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