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: Athleta 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, gray claystone and limestone
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 163713: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 10.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Cephalopoda | |
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Kosmoceras (Lobokosmokeras) proniae ammonite
Kosmoceras (Kosmoceras) aff. spinosum Sowerby 1826 ammonite | |
Quenstedtoceras cf. spatiatum, Quenstedtoceras (Prorsiceras) gregarium, Quenstedtoceras (Eboraciceras) cf. cadiforme, Quenstedtoceras (Eboraciceras) sp., Quenstedtoceras (Lamberticeras) lamberti
Quenstedtoceras cf. spatiatum ammonite
Quenstedtoceras (Eboraciceras) sp. Hyatt 1877 ammonite
Quenstedtoceras (Lamberticeras) lamberti Sowerby 1880 ammonite | |