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Fossil specimen : OUM J.03088 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Chondrichthyes

      Order Hybodontiformes

Fossil Name Hybodus reticulatus Agassiz, 1838
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Hybodus reticulatus Agassiz, 1838 – See Maisey (1987): Syntype

Hybodus reticulatus Agassiz, 1838 – See Woodward (1889): Syntype

Hybodus reticulatus Agassiz, 1838 – See Agassiz (1843): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J.03088
Collector Name not available
Donor or Associated Person Philpot, E. 1880
Held By Oxford University Museum of Natural History Logo Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Comments Teeth, cartilage & dorsal spines (in matrix). Figured specimen may actually be Bristol Museum & Art Gallery C4727
Location
Country England
Locality Lyme Regis, Dorset
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Blue Lias Formation, Bucklandi Beds
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Sinemurian Age (Jurassic Period) – Rhaetian Age (Triassic Period) (190.8 – 209.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

AGASSIZ, L. 1843. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, III (IV), Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, pp. 157-390. pp. 50, 180; pl. 24, fig. 26 (published 1838)

MAISEY, J.G. 1987. Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic shark Hybodus reticulates (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), with comments on hybodontid systematics. Am. Mus. Novit., 2878, 1-39, figs 1-19. pp. 4, 6

WOODWARD, A.S. 1889. A Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part I. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 474 pp, pls I-XVII. p. 266

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