Centrolepis asper Egerton 1858 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Palaeoniscoidea - Centrolepidae

Full reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1858. Figures and descriptions illustrative of British organic remains. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Decade IX, Supplement 2 Pl 1-Pl 10

Belongs to Centrolepis according to A. S. Woodward 1890

See also Egerton 1858

Sister taxon: Centrolepis aspera

Type specimen: BMNH P582/3510, a skeleton. Its type locality is Lyme Regis, beach under Black Ven , which is in a Sinemurian marine horizon in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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