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

Where: United Kingdom (54.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

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 130906: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestella flustracea" = Rectifenestella retiformis
"Fenestella flustracea" = Rectifenestella retiformis von Schlotheim 1816
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
"Monotis gryphaeoides" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria von Schlotheim 1816 scallop