Felixkirk Borehole, 164.38-175.23m (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Yorkshire, United Kingdom (54.3° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 3.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Echioceras raricostatum zone, Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous mudstone and shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Bolehole drilled by the British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, UK

Primary reference: H. C. Ivimey-Cook and J. H. Powell. 1991. Late Triassic and early Jurassic biostratigraphy of the Felixkirk Borehole, North Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 48(4):367-374 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219470: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Echioceratidae
Leptechioceras cf. macdonnelli Portlock 1843 ammonite
"Neomicroceras sp." = Leptechioceras (Neomicroceras) ammonite
Echioceras raricostatoides Vadasz 1908 ammonite
Echioceras cf. quenstedti Schafhautl 1847 ammonite
Paltechioceras sp. Buckman 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Eoderoceratidae
Eoderoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite
Crucilobiceras sp. Buckman 1920 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Polymorphitidae
Gemmellaroceras sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam