Ruppersdorf, Bohemia (BMNH fish coll.) (Permian of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.4° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° N, 22.7° E)

When: Cisuralian (298.9 - 272.3 Ma)

• Rothliegendes

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137252: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 13.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Xenacanthiformes - Xenacanthidae
Pleuracanthus decheni Goldfuss 1847 elasmobranch
BMNH 19665-6 (purchased 1845), 35015 (purchased 1860), P.1729 (Egerton Coll.), P.3182 (Enniskillen Coll.), 38154 ( Presented by Sir Roderick I. Murchinson, K.C.B.), P. 3183 (Enniskillen Coll.), P. 1728 (Egerton Coll.), P.3179-81 (Enniskillen Coll.), 40046-7 (Purchased 1866)