Whitley (Howse collection) (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (55.0° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 14.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Howse collection, Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Specimens later figured by Davidson (1858) were as of 1963 in Geological Survey Museum, London.

Primary reference: R. Howse. 1848. A catalogue of the fossils of the Permian system of the counties of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1:219-264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130869: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus horridus" = Horridonia horrida
"Productus horridus" = Horridonia horrida Sowerby 1822
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Liroceratidae
"Nautilus freieslebeni" = Peripetoceras freieslebeni
"Nautilus freieslebeni" = Peripetoceras freieslebeni Geinitz 1843 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
"Leda vintii" = Phestia speluncaria
"Leda vintii" = Phestia speluncaria Geinitz 1848 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
"Myoconcha costata" = Permophorus costatus
"Myoconcha costata" = Permophorus costatus Brown 1839 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Astarte vallisneriana" = Astartella vallisneriana
"Astarte vallisneriana" = Astartella vallisneriana King 1848 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
"Axinus truncatus" = Schizodus truncatus
"Axinus truncatus" = Schizodus truncatus King 1844 clam