Sea-bottom about 30 miles off coast of Northumberland (Permian of North Atlantic)

Where: North Atlantic (55.3° N, 0.6° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 15.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by a fisherman

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Collecting method: fishing line

•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 130842: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
"Trigonotreta multiplicata" = Paraspiriferina multiplicata
"Trigonotreta multiplicata" = Paraspiriferina multiplicata Sowerby 1829