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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
"Fenestella flustracea" = Rectifenestella retiformis
"Fenestella flustracea" = Rectifenestella retiformis von Schlotheim 1816 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Monotis gryphaeoides" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria
"Monotis gryphaeoides" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria von Schlotheim 1816 scallop |