Blea Wyke Cleveland Basin (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Yorkshire, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Leioceras opalinum ammonoid zone, Dogger Formation, Early/Lower Aalenian (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• Blea Wyke Section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly, sandy limestone

• Blea Wyke : (lower Aalenian) sandy sideritic berthierine-rich oolite, which forms a winnowed accumulation of pebbles, siderite nodules, robust shelly fragments and derived ammonites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, coalified, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. S. Morgans. 1999. Lower and Middle Jurassic woods of the Cleveland Basin ( North Yorkshire), England. Palaeontology 42(2):303-328 [C. Looy/W. Puijk/W. Puijk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31147: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Wilma Puijk on 15.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Shelly debris, Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Pinopsida
 Pinales -
Xenoxylon phyllocladoides
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Cedroxylon sp.
Cedroxylon sp. Kraus 1870
unclassified
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"Metazoa indet." = Animalia, Echinodermata indet.
"Metazoa indet." = Animalia Linnaeus 1758
shelly debris
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
spines
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
ossicles