Tynemouth cliff (Howse collection) (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Durham, United Kingdom (55.0° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified breccia

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 130907: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
"Cyathocrinus ramosus" = Cyathocrinites ramosus2
"Cyathocrinus ramosus" = Cyathocrinites ramosus2 von Schlotheim 1816 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
"Spirifer undulatus" = Pterospirifer alatus
"Spirifer undulatus" = Pterospirifer alatus von Schlotheim 1813
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Spirigera pectinifera" = Cleiothyridina pectinifera1
"Spirigera pectinifera" = Cleiothyridina pectinifera1 Sowerby 1841
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Terebratula elongata" = Dielasma elongatum1
"Terebratula elongata" = Dielasma elongatum1 von Schlotheim 1816
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
"Camarophoria humbletonensis" = Stenoscisma humbletonensis1
"Camarophoria humbletonensis" = Stenoscisma humbletonensis1 Howse 1848