Where: Yorkshire, United Kingdom (54.5° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 9.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alum Shale Formation, Bifrons (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• Commune subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M.K. Howarth; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: M. K. Howarth. 1962. The Jet Rock Series and the Alum Shale Series of the Yorkshire coast. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 33:381-422 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147871: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

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