Staffin Shale
37 distinct taxa, from 62 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 165–155 Mya.
Scotland · UK
37 taxa · 62 fossils · 165–155 MyaFiled under the Great Estuarine Group. Members recorded: Dunans Clay, Tobar Ceann Siltstone.
Macrostrat dates this rock 165–149 Ma. Macrostrat’s own record
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3 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Quenstedtoceras
- Kosmoceras
- Peltoceras
- Kosmoceras spinosum
- Cadoceras (Pseudocadoceras)
- Cardioceras (Cardioceras) costicardia
- Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras)
- Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras) scarburgense
- Cardioceras (Scoticardioceras) excavatum
- Cardioceras (Vertebriceras)
- Peltoceratoides (Parawedekindia) arduennensis
- Aspidoceras
- Belemnitida
- Camptonectes
- Cardioceras
- Cardioceras (Cawtoniceras)
- Cardioceras (Maltoniceras)
- Cardioceras (Plasmatoceras)
- Cardioceras (Plasmatoceras) tenuicostatum
- Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras) bukowskii
- Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras) excavatoides
- Cardioceras (Scarburgiceras) praecordatum
- Cardioceras (Scoticardioceras)
- Cardioceras (Subvertebriceras) costellatum
- Cardioceras (Subvertebriceras) densiplicatum
- Cardioceras cordatum
- Euaspidoceras
- Goliathiceras
- Goliathiceras (Goliathites) goliathus
- Lingula
- Osteichthyes
- Oxytoma
- Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes)
- Pholadomya
- Pleuromya
- Polycidaris
- Quenstedtoceras lamberti
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.