Lyme Regis, Dorset (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 3.8° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Semicostatum (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• bucklandi zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. E. Negus. 1983. Distribution of the British Jurassic corals. Proceedings of the Geologists` Association 94(3):251-257 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42202: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 26.07.2004, edited by Hallie Street

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus communis, Ichthyosaurus breviceps, Ichthyosaurus conybeari n. sp.
Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821 ichthyosaur
BMNH R1073, 36256, R12, R1071, 39492
Ichthyosaurus breviceps Owen 1881 ichthyosaur
BMNH 43006, R216, R1074, R3367, 39263, 33277
Ichthyosaurus conybeari n. sp. Lydekker 1888 ichthyosaur
BMNH 38523 (holotype, partial skeleton); IGS 956
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oppelismiliidae
Heterastraea insignis, Heterastraea endotheca
 Scleractinia - Stylophyllidae
"Thecosmilia rugosa" = Phacelostylophyllum rugosum
"Thecosmilia rugosa" = Phacelostylophyllum rugosum Laube 1865 stony coral