Wigston, near Leicester (BMNH Coll.) (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 1.4° E)

When: Paper Shales Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: 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 132046: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 06.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus higginsi Egerton 1854
BMNH P.5932-33 (presented by Edward Wilson, Esq., 1889)