Rudha na h'Airigh Baine 3 (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.2° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 4.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mariae ammonoid zone, Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• 'Oxford Clay'

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, micaceous, black shale

• Dark micaceous sandy shales. About 9m above base

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Turner; reposited in the BGS

Primary reference: J. Turner. 1966. The Oxford Clay of Skye, Scalpay and Eigg. Scottish Journal of Geology 2(3):243-252 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163734: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 10.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Hecticoceras sp.
Hecticoceras sp. Bonarelli 1893 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cardioceratidae
Quenstedtoceras sp.
Quenstedtoceras sp. Hyatt 1877 ammonite