Also known as Lofthouse
Where: England, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 8.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hildoceras bifrons ammonoid zone, Alum Shale Formation, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)
• "Cement Shale" and "Main Alum Shale" beds of the Alum Shale Formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. T. Newton. 1888. On the skull, brain and auditory organ of a new species of pterosaurian (Scaphognathus purdoni) from the Upper Lias near Whitby, Yorkshire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 179:503-537 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90458: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.07.2009, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Leptopterygius acutirostris" = Ichthyosaurus acutirostris1
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Parapsicephalus purdoni n. gen. n. sp.
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"Plesiosaurus zetlandicus n. sp." = Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus2
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