Barrow-on-Soar (BMNH collection): Planorbis, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Ichthyosaurus longirostris n. sp. Mantell 1851
Owen 1884
recombined as Eurhinosaurus longirostris
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Undina barroviensis Woodward 1890
1 specimen
BMNH 21335 (purchased 1847)
Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
Lepidotus serrulatus Agassiz 1837
Woodward 1895 5 specimens
recombined as Heterolepidotus serrulatus
BMNH P.2007, P.3580a (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.), P.7565, 19488-a (presented by the Earl of Aylesford 1845)
Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
Ptycholepis minor n. sp. Egerton 1852
Woodward 1895 2 specimens
BMNH P.574, P.3694 (Egerton & Enniskillen Colls.)
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Oxygnathus egertoni (Egerton 1858)
Woodward 1891 3 specimens
BMNH P585, P5854, P959x
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus stricklandi Agassiz 1843
Woodward 1895 7 specimens
BMNH 18387, 18390-a (presented by Edward Charlesworth, Esq., 1844), 19859, 19861 (purchased 1846), 21334 (purchased 1847), 36312 (presented by Miss Wilson, 1862)
Actinopteri - Dapediidae
Tetragonolepis radiatus Agassiz 1836
Woodward 1895 5 specimens
recombined as Dapedium radiatum
BMNH P.7423-26, 18789
Tetragonolepis dorsalis Agassiz 1835
Woodward 1895 4 specimens
recombined as Dapedium dorsalis
BMNH P.19430-31 (presented by the Earl of Aylesford, 1845), 40176 (purchased 1866), P.7432 (presented by Edward Gibson, Esq)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Leicestershire
Coordinates: 52.7° North, 1.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 1.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Planorbis
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Possibly Wilmcote Limestone Member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
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:BMNH
Collection method comments: BMNH fish where no collection information is given
Metadata
Database number:122157
Authorizer:M. Clapham, A. Dunhill Enterer:M. Clapham, B. Allen, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-12-17 14:43:10 Last modified:2019-03-28 20:59:09
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-17 14:43:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

67760 R. Owen. 1884. A History of British Fossil Reptiles, Part III. 1-199 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]
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]