Sample SLC1c, Speeton (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.2° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras mantelli ammonoid zone, Crowe's Shoot Member (Ferriby Formation), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical

• Repository: Liverpool City Museum (National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside; LIVCM).

Primary reference: C. J. Underwood and S. F. Mitchell. 1999. Albian and Cenomanian selachian assemblages from north-east England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60:9-59 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213364: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
? Scyliorhinidae indet. Gill 1862 cat shark
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Synechodus nitidus Woodward 1912 elasmobranch
 Squaliformes - Squalidae
Squalus sp. Linnaeus 1758 dogfish shark