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
Ichthyosauria indet. (de Blainville 1835)
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]