Staithes, Cleveland Basin, Mulgrave Shale Mmb, MS4: Early Toarcian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Pseudomytiloides dubius (Sowerby 1826)
112 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 54.5° North, 0.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.8° North, 16.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:126 meters
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Early Jurassic
Stage: Toarcian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 3
Key time interval: Early Toarcian Ammonoid zone:  Ammonite Zone Falciferum
Age range of interval: 184.2 - 182.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Whitby Mudstone Member:Mulgrave Shale
Regional section:Staithes Regional bed:34 m
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: Subzone Cleviceras exaratum
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: dark grey, organic-rich shales
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:213926
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-09-13 00:53:28 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2020-09-13 00:53:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
73768. S. Danise, R. J. Twitchett, C. T. S. Little and M. E. Clemence. 2013. The Impact of Global Warming and Anoxia on Marine Benthic Community Dynamics: an Example from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic). Plos One 8(2) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]