Whitley, shell-limestone (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Durham, United Kingdom (55.1° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.0° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ford Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by King

• Repository: King collection, James Mitchell Museum, Galway, Ireland

Primary reference: W. King. 1850. Monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society 1-253 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130770: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus truncatus King 1844 clam
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Acanthocladia anceps, "Synocladia virgulacea" = Synocladia dubia
Acanthocladia anceps Schlotheim 1820
"Synocladia virgulacea" = Synocladia dubia Schlotheim 1820
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
"Stenopora" columnaris, ""Calamopora" mackrothii" = Stenopora mackrothi
""Calamopora" mackrothii" = Stenopora mackrothi Geinitz 1846