ammonites
Earl of Carlisle's estate, Slingsby (YM 498) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Omosaurus phillipsi type

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.2° N, 0.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: (Cardioceras densiplicatum ammonoid zone, Malton Oolite Member (Corallian Oolite Formation), Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• from between 5 and 10 m above base of Malton Oolite Member, within Cardioceras vertebrale Subzone of Perisphinctes plicatilis Zone (now = Cardioceras densiplicatum Zone)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal, white wackestone

• "shelly oomicrite, with 1 to 1.5 mm ooliths set in a tough, white matrix." Original description: "imbedded in a thin stratum of earth and calcareous matter between two of the upper strata of limestone."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. G. Seeley in 1838

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. G. Seeley. 1893. On Omosaurus phillipsi. Annual Report of the Council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society 1892:52-57 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47781: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 01.03.2005

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