Staithes, Cleveland Basin, Penny Nab Mmb, Cl16 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 6.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Ammonite Zone Margaritatus ammonoid zone, Penny Nab Member (Cleveland Ironstone Formation), Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• Subzone Amaltheus subnodosus

Environment/lithology: ironstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: S. Danise, R. J. Twitchett, C. T. S. Little and M. E. Clemence. 2013. The Impact of Global Warming and Anoxia on Marine Benthic Community Dynamics: an Example from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic). Plos One 8(2) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213648: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 07.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Tetrarhynchia tetraedra" = Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra
"Tetrarhynchia tetraedra" = Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra Sowerby 1812
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata, Antiquilima sp.
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata Münster 1836 file clam
Antiquilima sp. Cox 1943 file clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis, "Palmoxytoma cygnipes" = Oxytoma (Palmoxytoma) cygnipes
"Oxytoma inequivalve" = Oxytoma inequivalvis Sowerby 1819 scallop
"Palmoxytoma cygnipes" = Oxytoma (Palmoxytoma) cygnipes Young and Bird 1822 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula spinosa Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pseudopecten equivalvis Sowerby 1816 scallop