Atford, near Bath (BMNH fish coll.): Late/Upper Bathonian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
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Pycnodus bucklandi
Agassiz 1833
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Mesodon bucklandi | ||||||||||
BMNH P.3739 (Enniskillen Coll.) | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotus tuberculatus
Agassiz 1837
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1 specimen | |||||||||
BMNH 30569 (purchased 1856) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom |
Coordinates: | 51.4° North, 2.3° West (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 41.0° North, 8.3° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Bathonian | Ammonoid zone: | Clydoniceras discus |
Age range of interval: | 167.70000 - 164.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Forest Marble |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
Database number: | 131848 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | P. Vazquez |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-07-31 08:50:42 | Last modified: | 2018-09-09 10:05:48 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-07-31 08:50:42 |
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] |