Middle B beds, Speeton (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.2° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 10.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Speeton Clay Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, concretionary, black shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C.J. Underwood, S.F. Mitchell in 1996-1998; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical

Primary reference: C. J. Underwood. 2004. Barremian and Aptian (Cretaceous) sharks and rays from Speeton, Yorkshire, NE England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 55:107-118 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213572: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Synechodus dubrisiensis Mackie 1863 elasmobranch
 Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
Squatina sp. Dumeril 1806 angel shark
 Squaliformes - Squalidae
Protosqualus sp. Cappetta 1977 dogfish shark
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Palaeobrachaelurus mitchelli n. sp. Underwood 2004 carpet shark