Ilminster, Somerset (BMNH Coll.): Toarcian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Pholidophorus germanicus Quenstedt 1858
1 specimen
BMNH P.3704 (Enniskillen Coll.)
Actinopteri - Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Leptolepis bronni (Agassiz 1832)
1 specimen
synonym of Leptolepis coryphaenoides
BMNH P.3667 (Enniskillen Coll.)
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Elops macropterus de Blainville 1818
1 specimen
recombined as Pachycormus macropterus
BMNH P.7570
Insecta - Coleoptera
Coleopteron sp. Handlirsch 1906
Handlirsch 1906 1 specimen
Note in Goss, 1878
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 2.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.9° North, 8.8° East
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Toarcian
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Lias
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Database number:132036
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez, J. Karr
Modifier:B. Allen Research group:paleoentomology,vertebrate
Created:2012-08-05 15:51:59 Last modified:2019-11-08 08:13:06
Access level:the public Released:2012-08-05 15:51:59
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:

35209 A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]