Where: England, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Harpoceras falciferum ammonoid zone, Jet Rock Beds Member (Whitby Mudstone Formation), Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• "Upper Lias, Zone of Ammonites serpentinus Reincke, Whitby, Yorkshire, England. According to William E. Schevill Ammonites serpentinus Reincke-Hildoceratoides serpentinus (Reincke) after S. S. Buckman. This zone would then be the Hildoceratan zone of Evans and Stubblefield, which is middle Whitbian. The specimen probably came from near the bottom of the Alum shale."

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•Benton & Taylor (1984) provided up-to-date provenance data

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, pyritic, brown, gray, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Tate and J. F. Blake. 1876. The Yorkshire Lias 1-475 [R. Benson/R. Benson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102189: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 11.01.2011

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