Staithes, Cleveland Basin, Alum Shale Mmb, AS2 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.8° N, 16.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• Subzone Dactylioceras commune

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 213981: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Pseudomytiloides dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia
"Pseudomytiloides dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia Sowerby 1826 clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella substriata Munster 1831 scallop