Also known as Long Nab, Burniston Footprint Bed, Burniston Bay

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.3° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Long Nab Member (Scalby Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• originally described as "Upper Estuarine"; 20 ft above the "Level-Bedded Series." Bed known as the "Burniston Footprint Bed."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, sideritic sandstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by Wallis & Temporely in 1914, 1934

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. A. Hargreaves. 1914. Fossil footprints near Scarborough. The Naturalist 1914:154-156 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82263: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.07.2008

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