Also known as north of Portree

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.5° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 3.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Jurassic to Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 161.5 Ma)

• Kean et al. 2020: NMS G.2020.11.1 is a cobble of claystone with a fine-grained clay matrix that is well-cemented and grey in colour. This may indicate that the cobble belongs to the Portree Shale Formation, suggesting a lower Toarcian age (~182.7 Ma) for the specimen, which would place it in the Early Jurassic. With that said, because the specimen was found loose and water worn, it has certainly been reworked, and it therefore could have derived from nearly any Jurassic-aged unit along the east coast of the Trotternish Peninsula of Skye, so we conservatively consider it Early to Middle Jurassic in age here.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Gert Greitens in 2018

• Kean et al. 2020: NMS – National Museum of Scotland

Primary reference: K. J. Kean, D. Foffa, M. M. Johnson, M. T. Young, G. Greitens and S. L. Brusatte. 2020. First and most northern occurrence of a thalattosuchian crocodylomorph from the Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland . Scottish Journal of Geology 57(1):sjg2020-01 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224095: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 14.01.2022

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