Staithes, Cleveland Basin, Alum Shale Mmb, AS8: Early/Lower Toarcian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Lingulidae
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Lingularia longovicensis
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Oxytomidae
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Meleagrinella substriata
(Munster 1831)
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5 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates: | 54.5° North, 0.6° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.1° North, 8.3° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Altitude: | 126 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Toarcian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Toarcian | Ammonoid zone: | Ammonite Zone Bifrons |
| Age range of interval: | 184.20000 - 182.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Whitby Mudstone | Member: | Alum Shale | ||
| Regional section: | Staithes | Regional bed: | 49 m | ||
| Regional order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Subzone Dactylioceras commune | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Environment: | shallow 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: | 213987 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | M. Krause |
| Modifier: | M. Krause | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2020-09-13 14:15:25 | Last modified: | 2020-09-17 13:31:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-09-13 14:15:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |