Long Bight, Whitby: Aalenian, United Kingdom
collected by A. Gurr 2001
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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| tracks; morphotype Cvii | ||||||||||
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? Stegosauria indet.
(Marsh 1877)
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| tracks; morphotypes Cii, Ciii - possible swimming tracks | ||||||||||
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Eusauropoda indet.
Upchurch 1995
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Manning et al. 2015 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| vertebra; YORYM:2001.9337 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Yorkshire |
| Coordinates: | 54.5° North, 0.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.3° North, 9.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
| Stage: | Aalenian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Aalenian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 174.70000 - 170.90000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | paleosol/pedogenic,fine,medium,micaceous,nodular,sideritic lithified silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a fine-grained, well-cemented silty sandstone" with rootlets in the matrix. Also, "a moderately well-sorted, medium-grained, feldspathic and micaceous quartz sandstone (subarkose). Authigenic clay minerals are abundant, while small nodular siderite and rootlets are also present." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast,mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | A. Gurr | Collection dates: | 2001 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 170146 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-06-15 09:40:58 | Last modified: | 2021-12-15 13:35:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-06-15 09:40:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69312. | M. Romano and M. A. Whyte. 2003. Jurassic dinosaur tracks and trackways of the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire: preservation, diversity and distribution. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 54(3):185-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 55524 | P. L. Manning, V. M. Egerton, and M. Romano. 2015. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of the United Kingdom. PLoS ONE 10(6):e0128107:1-7 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 78890 | M. Romano, N. D. L. Clark, and S. Brusatte. 2018. A comparison of the dinosaur communities from the Middle Jurassic of the Cleveland (Yorkshire) and Hebrides (Skye) basins, based on their ichnites. Geosciences 8:327:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |