Peak Alum Quarries (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.4° N, 0.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saltwick Formation (Ravenscar Group), Early/Lower Aalenian (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• lower part of formation, originally Lower Estuarine Series, about 21 ft above Dogger Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by R. D. Boutell in 1969

Collection methods: surface (float),

• collected summer 1969 by Robert D. Boutell, student at Nottingham University

Primary reference: W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1970. Fossil footprints from the Middle Triassic of Nottinghamshire and the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire. The Mercian Geologist 3(3):269-282 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83052: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
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