Saltwick Nab to Whitestone Point, bed 35 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jet Rock Formation, Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Exaratum zone, "Whale Stones"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.K. Howarth; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: M. K. Howarth. 1962. The Jet Rock Series and the Alum Shale Series of the Yorkshire coast. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 33:381-422 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147840: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras crenatum Buckman 1926 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
"Harpoceras exaratum" = Eleganticeras exaratum, "Cleviceras exaratum" = Eleganticeras exaratum
"Harpoceras exaratum" = Eleganticeras exaratum Young and Bird 1828 ammonite
"Cleviceras exaratum" = Eleganticeras exaratum Young and Bird 1828 ammonite