Where: Yorkshire, United Kingdom (54.3° N, 1.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 42.5° N, 16.1° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Dactylioceras tenuicostatum zone, Whitby Mudstone Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale
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 219475: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.04.2021
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Steinmannia bronni Voltz 1833 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Tiltoniceras antiquum Wright 1882 ammonite | |
Dactylioceras sp., Dactylioceras (Orthodactylites) tenuicostatum, Dactylioceras (Orthodactylites) semicelatum
Dactylioceras sp. Hyatt 1867 ammonite |