Sandsend, near Whitby (Enniskillen coll): Toarcian, United Kingdom
collected by William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Acipenseriformes
- Chondrosteidae
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Gyrosteus mirabilis
Agassiz 1843
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | North Yorkshire |
Coordinates: | 54.5° North, 0.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.6° North, 9.3° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
Stage: | Toarcian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3 |
Key time interval: | Toarcian | ||
Age range of interval: | 182.70000 - 174.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Collectors: | William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen |
Metadata
Database number: | 122375 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-12-22 16:11:02 | Last modified: | 2019-03-28 21:10:51 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-12-22 16:11:02 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
38893. | A. S. Woodward. 1895. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |