Hallaig Lobster Block: Davoei, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Liparoceratidae
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Aegoceras cf. brevilobatum
(Trueman 1919)
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Litogastroidae
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Pseudoglyphea foersteri n. sp.
Feldmann 2002
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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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| "pyritised fossil wood" | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Inner Hebrides |
| Coordinates: | 57.4° North, 6.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.0° North, 2.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Pliensbachian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Davoei | ||
| Age range of interval: | 192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Scalpa Sandstone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "dislodged block 3m acrosss" assigned to the Davoei Zone and possibly Lataecosta Subzone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | bioturbation,micaceous silty sandstone |
| Lithology description: "bioturbated, micaceous, silty sandstones" | |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: "both tidal and storm activity with deposition on a shallow marine shelf" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 37397 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | A. Khan | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-03-14 21:07:41 | Last modified: | 2013-08-17 10:38:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-03-14 21:07:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10028. | R. M. Feldmann, G. Crisp, and D. Pirrie. 2002. A new species of glypheoid lobster, Pseudoglyphea foersteri (Decapoda: Astacidea: Mecochiridae) from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Raasay, Inner Hebrides, UK. Palaeontology 45(1):23-32 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |