Hylton Castle Road Cutting 1 (Biolithite), Rotherfield Road, Sunderland (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

• 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

Primary reference: N. Hollingworth and T. Pettigrew. 1988. Zechstein reef fossils and their palaeoecology. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 3:1-75 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109719: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Liebea squamosa Sowerby 1829 clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp. King 1848 oyster
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Synocladia dubia Schlotheim 1820
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Rectifenestella retiformis von Schlotheim 1816
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. Beede and Rogers 1900