GB3D Type Fossils

Fossil specimen : BGS GSM28832 – Holotype

Taxonomy
Taxonomic Group

Kingdom Animalia

  Phylum Chordata

    Class -

      Order -
Fossil Name Holophagus gulo Egerton
Type Status Holotype
Name History

Holophagus gulo Egerton

Dapedium sp (in stomach)
Provenance
Registration No. GSM28832
Collector Harrison, J. (according to Egerton 1861) 1861
Donor or Associated Person Name not available
Held By British Geological Survey Logo British Geological Survey
Comments Lower Lias. 1" 326/327. (Note: this is a huge fish).
Location
Country England
Locality Lyme Regis - Dorset.
Grid Reference Not available
Stratigraphy
Rock Unit Lias Group
Biozone Not available
Geological Age

Aalenian Age (Jurassic Period) – Rhaetian Age (Triassic Period) (170.3 – 209.5 Ma B.P.)

References
References

Egerton Sir P Mem Geol Surv - Decade X p.19

Gardiner B 1960 BM (NH) Vol 4 Part 7 p.327

Huxley TH 1866 Mem Geol Surv - Decade XII p.26 Plate 6

Schaefer 1941 Amer Mus Novit p.1110 Fig 9f

Woodward AS 1891 BM (NH) Catalogue of Fossil Fishes Part II (as Undina gulo (Egerton)) p.411-412
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