Foreshore between Peak Fault and Blea Wyke, bed viii (lower 5 ft) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Yorkshire, United Kingdom (54.4° N, 0.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.8° N, 16.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Exaratum subzone; equivalent of bed 41 of strata northwest of Peak Fault

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray 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 147858: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Hildaites sp. ammonite