Blisworth, Northamptonshire (BMNH fish Coll.) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Halecomorphi - Ophiopsiidae
"Pholidophorus flesherii" = Ophiopsis flesheri
"Pholidophorus flesherii" = Ophiopsis flesheri Agassiz 1843 ray-finned fish
BMNH 47138 (Sharp Coll.