Fossils of Robin Hood's Bay

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Strata of Bay

  
 

Sawdon's Road to Ness

  
 

Ness to Bay

 
 

Bay to Mill Beck

  
 

Mill Beck to Stoupe Beck

  
 

Stoupe Beck to Peak

  
 

Peak to Blea Wyke

  
 

 

 
 

Ness to Bay

Access from Bay via the new slipway. Check tide times before setting off as there is a danger of getting cut off. There is no easy way off the beach to the north of Bay so you must return the way you came. (It is not possible to walk to Whitby on the beach)

The Scaurs

In the area of the new slipway two large partial Ammonites (Apoderoceras subtriangulare) can be seen.

The Cliff

The cliff reaches a height of 70m, keep away for the verticle sections.
     
Stage

Lower

Pliensbachian

  

Fossils in Zone Order by the Members of UK fossils Discussion Board

Source of infomation "The Lower Lias of Robin Hood's Bay and the work of Leslie Bairstow" by M.K.Howard
  ZONE

Davoei

32.63m
    SUBZONE Figulinum 9.7m Beds 596.2 - 600.5
   
   

  Prodactylioceras davoei

Aegoceras (Oistoceras) figulinum

 

 

Aegoceras (Oistoceras) sinuosiforme

Aegoceras (Oistoceras) angulatum

 

 

Liparoceras (L.) divaricosta

  

 

 

   

 

 

    SUBZONE Capricornus 3.04m Beds 591 - 596.1
   
   

  Prodactylioceras davoei

Aegoceras (A.) capricornus

 

 

Aegoceras (A.) lataecosta

Aegoceras (A.) artigyrus

 

 
   

 

 

    SUBZONE Maculatum 19.89m Beds 581 - 590.7
   
   

  Prodactylioceras davoei

Aegoceras (A.) maculatum

 

 

Androgynoceras heterogenes

Liparoceras

 

 

 Liparoceras (L.) cf. naptonense

  

 

 

   

 

 

  ZONE

Ibex

20.39m

  
    SUBZONE Luridum 7.24m Beds 578.1 - 580
   
   

Tragophylloceras ibex

Aegoceras (Beaniceras) luridum
   

Liparoceras cf. naptonense

Inoceramus
   

 Lytoceras fimbriatum

  
    SUBZONE Valdani 7.66m Beds 571 - 577
   
   
Tragophylloceras ibex Acanthopleuroceras valdani
   
Liparoceras (L.) heptangulare Lytoceras fimbriatum
   

 

 
    SUBZONE Masseanum 5.49m Beds 560.3 - 570
   
   
Tragophylloceras ibex Tropidoceras masseanum
   
Lytoceras fimbriatum Tragophylloceras loscombi
   

Tropidoceras futtereri

Liparoceras
   
   
  ZONE

Jamesoni

44.46m

  
    SUBZONE Jamesoni 5.66m Beds 550 - 560.3
   
   
Uptonia jamesoni Uptonia jamesoni
   
Uptonia lata Polymorphites bronni
   
Tragophylloceras Polymorphites polymorphus
   
Parinodiceras parinodum  
   
   
    SUBZONE Brevispina 3.72m Beds 544.6 - 549
   
   

  Uptonia jamesoni

   Platypleuroceras brevispina
   
Parinodiceras parinodum Radstockiceras buvignieri
   
Platypleuroceras aureum Tragophylloceras
   
Polymorphites trivialis  

 

 

   

 

 

    SUBZONE Polymorphus 7.05m Beds 538 - 544.5
   

  Uptonia jamesoni

 

Polymorphites polymorphus

 

 

Polymorphites trivialis 

Radstockiceras sphenonotum

 

 

Tragophylloceras numismale

Polymorphites caprarius

 

 

  Hyperderoceras

 

 

 

 

 

    SUBZONE Taylori 28.03 Beds 501.1 - 537  
   
   

  Uptonia jamesoni

  Phricodoceras taylori

 

 

Phricodoceras cornutum

Gemmellaroceras rutilans

 

 

 

Pinna folium (bivalve)

Gemmellaroceras tubellum

 

 

‘nests’ of pyrites with a radiating structure

Apoderoceras subtriangulare

 

 

  Tragophylloceras numismale

 Apoderoceras aculeatum

 

 

  Cenoceras striatum

 Bifericeras donovani
 

 

   
 
Other finds

from this area

  

 

  Ammonite

  

Belemnite

 

Dentalium (scaphoda)