Staffin: Middle Bathonian - Late/Upper Bathonian, United Kingdom
collected by D. Cooper 1980
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Ichthyosauria indet.
(de Blainville 1835)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
GLAHM 152379: portion of the palatal process of a right pterygoid | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Isle of Skye |
Coordinates: | 57.2° North, 6.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.6° North, 4.3° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Middle Bathonian - Late/Upper Bathonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 167.70000 - 164.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Duntulm | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: the stratigraphic source of the specimen cannot be determined with certainty, the boat slipway at Staffin lies on rocks of the Duntulm Formation above horizons of Praeexogyra (mid-late Bathonian) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | D. Cooper | Collection dates: | late 1980s |
Collection method comments: found by David Cooper ex situ ‘within yards of the boat slipway at Staffin’ in the late 1980s (D. Cooper pers. comm. to D.A.R., 1995). |
Metadata
Database number: | 165072 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2015-01-12 03:06:38 | Last modified: | 2018-12-12 10:56:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-12 03:06:38 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
54005. | S. L. Brusatte, M. T. Young, T. J. Challands, N. D. L. Clark, V. Fischer, N. C. Fraser, J. J. Liston, C. C. J. MacFayden, D. A. Ross, S. Walsh, and M. Wilkinson. 2015. Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic of Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] |