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Fossil specimen : OUM J.03129 – Syntype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class Chondrichthyes

      Order Hybodontiformes

Fossil Name Acrodus nobilis Agassiz, 1838
Type Status Syntype
Name History

Acrodus nobilis Agassiz, 1838 – See Powell & Edmonds (1978)

Acrodus nobilis Agassiz, 1838 – See Woodward & Sherborn (1890)

Acrodus nobilis Agassiz, 1838 – See Woodward (1889)

Acrodus gibberulus Agassiz, 1839 – See Agassiz (1839): Syntype

Provenance
Registration No. J.03129
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 Tooth. On the same card mount as J.3130
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. 1839. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, III (III), Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel, pp. 141-156. p. 144; ? pl. 22, figs 1 - 3

POWELL, H.P. and 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. 51

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. 283

WOODWARD, A.S. and SHERBORN, C.D. 1890. A Catalogue of British fossil Vertebrata. Dulau and Co., London, 396 pp. p. 7

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