Staithes, Cleveland Basin, Grey Shale Mmb, GS9 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Ammonite Zone Tenuicostatum ammonoid zone, Grey Shale Member (Whitby Mudstone Formation), Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Subzone Protogrammoceras paltum

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; mudstone 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 213677: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Tetrarhynchia tetraedra" = Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra
"Tetrarhynchia tetraedra" = Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra Sowerby 1812
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Levipleura blainvillei Munster 1844 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula navis Piette 1868 nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pseudopecten equivalvis Sowerby 1816 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata
"Pseudolimea acuticostata" = Limea acuticostata Münster 1836 file clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon insons Melville 1956 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae