North Cliffe, pit a (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: East Yorkshire, United Kingdom (53.8° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Angulata (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• "Pit a is at the crest of the scarp above North Cliffe and the sample would appear to be stratigraphically the highest taken in this area." Neale (1958) mentioned 6 feet of beds belonging to the zone of Schlotheimia angulata as the highest strata cropping out in the Cliffe area.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Collected by A. Lord

• Repository: Department of Geology, University of Hull

Primary reference: A. Lord. 1971. Revision of some lower Lias Ostracoda from Yorkshire. Palaeontology 14:642-665 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159116: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella concentrica Field 1966 ostracod
Cytherelloidea pulchella Apostolescu 1959 ostracod
Cytherelloidea circumscripta Blake 1876 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
"Ogmoconcha ellipsoidea" = Ogmoconchella ellipsoidea
"Ogmoconcha ellipsoidea" = Ogmoconchella ellipsoidea Jones 1872 ostracod