Long Bight, Whitby (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 9.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Saltwick Formation (Ravenscar Group), Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, paleosol/pedogenic, fine-grained, medium, micaceous, nodular, sideritic, silty sandstone

• "a fine-grained, well-cemented silty sandstone" with rootlets in the matrix. Also, "a moderately well-sorted, medium-grained, feldspathic and micaceous quartz sandstone (subarkose). Authigenic clay minerals are abundant, while small nodular siderite and rootlets are also present."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by A. Gurr in 2001

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: M. Romano and M. A. Whyte. 2003. Jurassic dinosaur tracks and trackways of the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire: preservation, diversity and distribution. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 54(3):185-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170146: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
? Stegosauria indet.
? Stegosauria indet. Marsh 1877 ornithischian
tracks; morphotypes Cii, Ciii - possible swimming tracks
 Saurischia -
Eusauropoda indet.
Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod
vertebra; YORYM:2001.9337
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811 turtle
tracks; morphotype Cvii