TABLE 1. Jurassic coccolepids and their inferred palaeoenvironments.
Taxon | Locality | Age | Environment | Reference |
‘Coccolepis’ liassica Woodward, 1890 | Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK | ‘Lower Lias’ (Hettangian - Pliensbachian) | Shallow marine platform | Woodward, 1890; Forey et al., 2010 |
Toarcocephalus morlok gen. et sp. nov. | Holzmaden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | tenuicostatum Subzone, early Toarcian | Marine epipelagic | This study |
Plesiococcolepis hunanensis Wang, 1977 | Yumushan, Zhoushi mininig region, Hunan Province, China | “Early Jurassic” | “Freshwater” | Wang, 1977; Skrycka, 2014 |
Morrolepis schaefferi Kirkland, 1998 | Utah, USA | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | Freshwater floodplain | Kirkland, 1998 |
Morrolepis andrewsi (Woodward, 1891) | Purbeck, Dorset, UK | Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous | Freshwater/ brackish lagoon | Woodward, 1891; Hilton et al., 2004 |
Morrolepis aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926) | Kazakhstan | Callovian/Oxfordian | Freshwater paleolake | Skrzycka, 2014 |
lyalepis rohoni (Sytchevskaya and Yakovlev, 1985) | Vladimirovka, Baikal Region, Siberia | Early-Middle Jurassic | Freshwater | Sytchevskaya, 2006 |
Condorlepis groeberi (Bordas, 1943) | Chubut, Argentina | Oxfordian - Tithonian | Freshwater lacustrine | López-Arbarello et al., 2013 |
Coccolepis bucklandi Agassiz, 1843 | Bavaria, Germany | Tithonian | Proximal marginal lagoon | Hilton et al., 2004; López-Arbarello and Ebert, 2021 |
Coccolepis solnhofensis López-Arbarello and Ebert, 2021 | Bavaria, Germany | Tithonian | Proximal marginal lagoon | López-Arbarello and Ebert, 2021 |
‘Coccolepis’ australis Woodward, 1895 | Talbragar, New South Wales, Australia | Late Jurassic | Freshwater | Woodward, 1895; Hilton et al., 2004 |
Sunolepis yumenensis Liu, 1957 | Yumen, Gansu Province, China | Late Jurassic or Early Cretaceous | Freshwater | Liu, 1957; Hilton et al., 2004 |