Low Pallion Quarry (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "Magnesian Limestone"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, carbonaceous limestone

• Stalactitical fetid limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Sunderland Museum (as of 1850)

Primary reference: N. J. Winch. 1817. Observations on the geology of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 4:1-101 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90274: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
"Platysomus parvus n. sp." = Platysomus striatus
"Platysomus parvus n. sp." = Platysomus striatus Agassiz 1833
Impression of a fish which appears to belong to the genus Chaetodon