Hallaig Lobster Block (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.4° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 2.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scalpa Sandstone Formation, Davoei (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• "dislodged block 3m acrosss" assigned to the Davoei Zone and possibly Lataecosta Subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; bioturbated, micaceous, silty sandstone

• "both tidal and storm activity with deposition on a shallow marine shelf"
• "bioturbated, micaceous, silty sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, G. Crisp, and D. Pirrie. 2002. A new species of glypheoid lobster, Pseudoglyphea foersteri (Decapoda: Astacidea: Mecochiridae) from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Raasay, Inner Hebrides, UK. Palaeontology 45(1):23-32 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37397: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
Aegoceras cf. brevilobatum Trueman 1919 ammonite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Litogastroidae
Pseudoglyphea foersteri n. sp. Feldmann 2002 decapod
unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"pyritised fossil wood"