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Fossil specimen : OUM J.03097 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Chondrichthyes

      Order -

Fossil Name Squaloraja polyspondyla Agassiz, 1843
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Squaloraja polyspondyla Agassiz, 1843 – See Taylor & Torrens (1987)

Spinacorhinus polyspondylus Agassiz, 1836 – See Powell & Edmonds (1978)

Squaloraja polyspondyla Agassiz, 1843 – See Patterson (1965)

Squaloraja polyspondyla Agassiz, 1843 – See Woodward (1891)

Squaloraja polyspondyla Agassiz, 1843 – See Woodward & Sherborn (1890)

Squaloraja polyspondyla Agassiz, 1843 – See Agassiz (1843): Holotype

Squaloraia – See Riley (1837)

Spinacorhinus polyspondylus Agassiz, 1836 – See Agassiz (1836): Holotype

Spinacorhinus polyspondylus Agassiz, 1836 – See Agassiz (1836): Holotype

Spinacorhinus – See Agassiz (1835)

Squaloraia dolichognathus Riley, 1833 – See Riley (1833)

Provenance
Registration No. J.03097
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
Location
Country England
Locality Lyme Regis, Dorset
Grid Reference Available from host institution
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Blue Lias Formation
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

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

References
References

AGASSIZ, L. 1835. Feuilleton additionel sur les Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles. Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, iv, pp. 21-64. p. 53

AGASSIZ, L. 1836. Feuilleton additionel sur les Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles. Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, vii, pp. 87-98. p. 94

AGASSIZ, L. 1836. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, III (II), Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, pp. 73-140. pl. 43, fig. 1 (published 1836)

AGASSIZ, L. 1843. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, III (IV), Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, pp. 157-390. p. 381

PATTERSON, C. 1965. The Phylogeny of the Chimaeroids. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. B, 249, 101-219. p. 116

POWELL, H.P. & EDMONDS, J.M. 1978. List of Type-fossils in the Philpot Collection, Oxford University Museum. Proc. Dorset nat. Hist. archaeol. Soc., 98 (for 1976), 48-53. p. 52

RILEY, H. 1833. On a fossil in Bristol Museum and discovered in the Lias at Lyme Regis. Proc. geol. Soc. Lond., 1, 483-484. p. 484

RILEY, H. 1837. On the Squaloraia. Trans. geol. Soc. Lond., Series 2, 5, 83-88. pp. 83, 85, 88

TAYLOR, M.A. and TORRENS, H.S. 1987. Saleswoman to a new science: Mary Anning and the fossil fish Squaloraja from the Lias of Lyme Regis. Proc. Dorset nat. Hist. archaeol. Soc., 108 (for 1986), 135-148. p. 143

WOODWARD, A.S. 1891. A Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part II. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 567 pp., pls I-XVI. p. 41

WOODWARD, A.S. and SHERBORN, C.D. 1890. A Catalogue of British fossil Vertebrata. Dulau and Co., London, 396 pp. p. 187

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