Ohmden, Würtemberg (Egerton coll): Early/Lower Toarcian, Germany
collected by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotus elvensis (de Blainville 1818)
3 specimens
recombined as Lepidotes elvensis
BMNH P.2054, P. 3529b., P.2014
Actinopteri - Dapediidae
Tetragonolepis pholidotus Agassiz 1832
3 specimens
recombined as Dapedius pholidotus
BMNH P.1574a, P.1563b, P.1573
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858
4 specimens
BMNH P.1065, a-c
Pholidophorus hartmanni n. sp. Egerton 1843
1 specimen
BMNH P.605
Actinopteri - Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Leptolepis bronni (Agassiz 1832)
3 specimens
synonym of Leptolepis coryphaenoides
BMNH P.945, P.950, P.946
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Elops macropterus de Blainville 1818
1 specimen
recombined as Pachycormus macropterus
BMNH P.2045
Pachycormus curtus Agassiz 1839
3 specimens
synonym of Pachycormus macropterus
BMNH P.881, P.2045a-b
Saurostomus esocinus Agassiz 1833
2 specimens
BMNH P.7572, P.2042
Esox incognitus Blainville 1818
2 specimens
recombined as Euthynotus incognitus
BMNH P.2044, P.881a
Saurichthyiformes - Saurichthyidae
Belonorhynchus brevirostris Woodward 1895
6 specimens
BMNH P960, P960a, P960b (four heads)
    = Saurorhynchus sp. Reis 1892
Maxwell and Stumpf 2017
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Palaeospinax egertoni n. sp. Woodward 1889
Woodward 1889 1 specimen
recombined as Synechodus egertoni
BMNH P.1132
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.7° North, 9.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 17.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Toarcian
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 182.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
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
Collectors:Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton
Metadata
Database number:122170
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-12-17 17:18:00 Last modified:2022-11-25 22:55:08
Access level:the public Released:2011-12-17 17:18:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38893. A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

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]
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]