Staithes, Cleveland Basin, North Yorkshire, Penny Nab Mmb, Cl4 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 6.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Ammonite Zone Margaritatus ammonoid zone, Penny Nab Member (Cleveland Ironstone Formation), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• Subzone Amaltheus subnodosus

Environment/lithology: ironstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Danise, R. J. Twitchett, C. T. S. Little and M. E. Clemence. 2013. The Impact of Global Warming and Anoxia on Marine Benthic Community Dynamics: an Example from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic). Plos One 8(2) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213636: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia truncata Sowerby 1827 cockle
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium lunare Roemer 1839 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pseudopecten equivalvis Sowerby 1816 scallop
Camptonectes subulatus Goldfuss 1834 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata Münster 1836 file clam