Where: United Kingdom (57.4° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 2.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Scalpa Formation, Spinatum (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• M.K. Howarth thinks that the horizon is almost certainly within the apyrenum subzone of the spinatum zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Geological Survey, Edinburgh
Primary reference: D. V. Ager. 1956. A Monograph of the British Liassic Rhynchonellidae, Part I. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 1-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38105: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 12.04.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pleuroceras transiens Frentzen 1937 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Gibbirhynchia cf. gibbosa, Grandirhynchia grandis n. sp., Grandirhynchia laevigata n. sp., Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra
Gibbirhynchia cf. gibbosa Buckman 1917
Grandirhynchia grandis n. sp. Buckman 1917
Grandirhynchia laevigata n. sp. Buckman 1917
Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra Sowerby 1812 | |
Homoeorhynchia capitulata Tate 1876
Homoeorhynchia acuta Sowerby 1816 | |
Zeilleria lycetti Davidson 1851 |