Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.6° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 4.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jason ammonoid zone, Staffin Shale Formation (Great Estuarine Group), Callovian (166.1 - 163.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, micaceous, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Turner; reposited in the BGS

• Specimens also in Hunterian Museum, Glasgow

Primary reference: J. Turner. 1966. The Oxford Clay of Skye, Scalpay and Eigg. Scottish Journal of Geology 2(3):243-252 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163707: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 09.11.2014

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