Lyme Regis, Enniskillen collection: Sinemurian, United Kingdom
collected by William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen 1830-1880

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Coccolepis liassicus Woodward 1890
Woodward 1890 1 specimen
BMNH P6153
Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Ptycholepis gracilis Davis 1884
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
BMNH P.4242
Ptycholepis curtus Egerton 1854
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
BMNH P.3692-a, P.3693
Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Belonorhynchus acutus (Agassiz 1843)
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
BMNH P3791, P4271, P3790
    = Saurorhynchus anningae n. sp. Maxwell and Stumpf 2017
Maxwell and Stumpf 2017
NHMUK PV P 3791 only; others presumably Saurorhynchus sp.
Belonorhynchus brevirostris Woodward 1895
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
recombined as Saurorhynchus brevirostris
BMNH P3791b, P3791a
Acipenseriformes - Chondrosteidae
Chondrosteus acipenseroides n. sp. Egerton 1858
13 specimens
Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
Eugnathus minor Agassiz 1839
Woodward 1895 10 specimens
BMNH P.3630, P.3636-38, P.4234, P.3634e, P.3628, P.3631, P.3634l, P.3638b
Eugnathus philpotae Agassiz 1839
Woodward 1895 13 specimens
BMNH P.3577, P.3576, P.3634h, P.3640, P.3578, P.3629, P.4233, P.3634a, b, P.3641, P.3634c,d, P.3634g
Eugnathus orthostomus Agassiz 1842
Woodward 1895 7 specimens
recombined as Furo orthostomus
BMNH P.3639, P.3642, P.3633a-d, P.3634f
Osteorachis macrocephalus n. sp. Egerton 1868
Egerton 1868 5 specimens
BMNH P.3654, P.3655, P.3648, P.3649, P.3648a
Isocolum granulatum n. sp. Egerton 1868
Egerton 1868 1 specimen
recombined as Osteorachis granulatum
BMNH P.3653
Eulepidotus sauroides Egerton 1868
Egerton 1868 2 specimens
Heterolepidotus latus Egerton 1872
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
BMNH P.3579-a, P.3620
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Holophagus gulo Egerton 1861
Egerton 1868 1 specimen
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Oxygnathus ornatus Egerton 1854
Woodward 1891 9 specimens
BMNH P3487, P3487a-g, P3509
Thrissonotus colei n. gen., n. sp. Agassiz 1843
Egerton 1858 1 specimen
synonym of Oxygnathus ornatus
BMNH P3509 (concretion of hard lias)
Actinopteri - Peltopleuriformes - Peltopleuridae
Platysiagum sclerocephalum Woodward 1895
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
BMNH P.3650-512
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus crenulatus Egerton 1843
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
recombined as Pholidophoroides crenulata
BMNH P.3595, P.4415-16
Pholidophorus limbatus Agassiz 1833
Woodward 1895 3 specimens
recombined as Pholidophoroides limbata
BMNH P.3596, P.3632, P.4410
Pholidophorus caudalis n. sp. Woodward 1895
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
recombined as Pholidophoropsis caudalis
BMNH P.3664, P.3662, P.3664a, P.4370
Actinopteri - Dorsetichthyiformes - Dorsetichthyidae
Pholidophorus bechei Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1895 11 specimens
recombined as Dorsetichthys bechei
BMNH P.3586a-f, P.3587, P.3588, P.3589a-c
Actinopteri - Dapediidae
Tetragonolepis magnevillei Agassiz 1833
Woodward 1895 8 specimens
recombined as Dapedium magnevillei
BMNH P.3574, P.3542-a, P.3541, P.3551, P.4423, P.3536, P.3543
Dapedius milloti Sauvage 1891
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
recombined as Dapedium milloti
BMNH P.3554, P.3566, P.3570, P.3540
Dapedium politum Leach 1822
Woodward 1895 17 specimens
BMNH P.3555, P.3550a, P.3556, P.3567, P.3554a, P.4399, P.3550, P.4230, P.4398, P.3539, P.3538, P.3552, P.3548, P.3534, P.3535a, P.3537, P.3537a
Dapedius granulatus Agassiz 1835
Woodward 1895 9 specimens
recombined as Dapedium granulatum
BMNH P.3561, P.3563, P.3564-b, P.3562, P.3544, P.3565, P.4400
Tetragonolepis radiatus Agassiz 1836
Woodward 1895 1 specimen
recombined as Dapedium radiatum
BMNH P.3537b
Dapedius colei Agassiz 1835
Woodward 1895 5 specimens
recombined as Dapedium colei
BMNH P.3545, P.3546, P.3558, P.4431, P.3538a
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Caturidae
Pachycormus heterurus Agassiz 1839
Woodward 1895 9 specimens
recombined as Caturus heterurus
BMNH P.4377, P.3696a-e, P.3696, P.3702, P.3633
Conodus ferox n. sp. Agassiz 1844
Woodward 1895 2 specimens
recombined as Caturus ferox
BMNH P.3643, P.3635
Pachycormus latipennis n. sp. Agassiz 1843
Egerton 1858 1 specimen
recombined as Caturus latipennis
BMNH P568
Chondrichthyes - Squalorajiformes - Squalorajidae
Squaloraja polyspondyla (Agassiz 1836)
Woodward 1891 6 specimens
BMNH P.3184-7, P.4323-a,
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Myriacanthidae
Myriacanthus paradoxus Agassiz 1836
Woodward 1891 9 specimens
BMNH P.3067-8, P.3196, P.3071, P.3069, P.3197-a, P.4454a, P.4664
Prognathodus guntheri n. gen., n. sp. Egerton 1872
Egerton 1872 1 specimen
synonym of Myriacanthus paradoxus
Myriacanthus granulatus Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1891 9 specimens
BMNH P.4575, P.3099, P.3070, P.2848, P.3072, P.4454b-e, P.2850
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Palaeospinax priscus (Agassiz 1838)
Woodward 1889 6 specimens
BMNH P.3189, P.3192-5, P.3191 (not P.3190)
    = Synechodus enniskilleni n. sp. Duffin and Ward 1993
Duffin and Ward 1993
recombined as Palidiplospinax enniskilleni
Synechodus occultidens n. sp. Duffin and Ward 1993
Duffin and Ward 1993 1 specimen
recombined as Palidiplospinax occultidens
BMNH P3190 (Woodward's Palaeospinax priscus)
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus anningiae n. sp. Agassiz 1843
Woodward 1889 9 specimens
BMNH P.2731, P.3153, P.2733, P.3152, P.3155, p.2735, P.2734, P.3732, P.2745
Acrodus nobilis Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1889 11 specimens
BMNH P.3154, P.2736, P.2737-9, P.2140, P.2740-3, P.3173,
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Woodward 1889 6 specimens
BMNH P.3231, P.5869, P.2802, P.4279, P.3164, P.4327
Hybodus reticulatus Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1889 3 specimens
BMNH P.3163, P.5876, P.3156
Hybodus raricostatus Agassiz 1838
Woodward 1889 5 specimens
BMNH P.2800, P.2796-8, P.3168
Hybodus medius Agassiz 1838
Woodward 1889 2 specimens
BMNH P. 2792, P.2794
Hybodus delabechei (Charlesworth 1839)
Woodward 1889 10 specimens
BMNH P.3159-61, P.3171, P.2781, P.2791, P.2799, P.4174, P.2793, P.2791a,
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Coleiidae
Coleia antiqua n. gen., n. sp. Broderip 1835
Broderip 1835
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Dorset
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 2.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.2° North, 3.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Lower Lias" is only stratigraphic info given, but most fish come from the Bucklandi and Semicostatum zones of the Early Sinemurian, specially the "Fish Bed" and "Fish Bed shales" - both in the Semicostatum zone, but also from the "Saurian shales" and other lower beds in the Bucklandi zone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BGS,BMNH
Collectors:William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen Collection dates:1830-1880
Metadata
Database number:122155
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-12-17 14:35:43 Last modified:2022-06-17 23:35:27
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-17 14:35:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
38982. P. M. G. Egerton. 1858. On Chondrosteus, an extinct genus of the Sturionidae, found in the Lias formation at Lyme Regis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148:871-885 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

81952 W. J. Broderip. 1835. Description of some fossil Crustacea and Radiata. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2:201-202 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
46296 C. J. Duffin and D. J. Ward. 1993. The Early Jurassic Palaeospinacid sharks of Lyme Regis, southern England. Belgian Geological Survey, Professional Papers, Elasmobranches et Stratigraphie 264:53-102 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]
45217 P. G. Egerton. 1868. On the characters of some new fossil fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 24:499-505 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38892 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 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
43717 P. M. G. Egerton. 1872. On Prognathodus güntheri, Egerton, a new genus of fossil fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 28:233-237 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]
39791 S. Klug and J. Kriwet. 2008. A new basal Galeomorph Shark (Synechodontiformes, Neoselachii)from the Early Jurassic of Europe. Naturwissenschaften 95:443-448 [M. Clapham/P. Elliott/M. Clapham]
62620 E. E. Maxwell and S. Stumpf. 2017. Revision of Saurorhynchus (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from the Early Jurassic of England and Germany. European Journal of Taxonomy 321:1-29 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38983 R. H. Traquair. 1887. Notes on Chondrosteus acipenseroides, Agassiz. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 4:248-257 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
43905 A. S. Woodward. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 1-613 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]
45030 A. S. Woodward. 1889. On the Myriacanthidae - an extinct family of chimaeroid fishes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 4:275-280 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38891 A. S. Woodward. 1890. Notes on some ganoid fishes from the English lower Lias. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 5:430-436 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38758 A. S. Woodward. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable ]
38893 A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]