Tunstall Hills East, Old Trench, Sunderland (Loc 8) (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, 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

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 109721: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Strophalosia sp. King 1844
 Productida - Productidae
Horridonia horrida Sowerby 1822
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma elongatum von Schlotheim 1816
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
"Synocladia virgulacea" = Synocladia dubia
"Synocladia virgulacea" = Synocladia dubia Schlotheim 1820
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestella retiformis" = Rectifenestella retiformis
"Fenestella retiformis" = Rectifenestella retiformis von Schlotheim 1816
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
"Pseudomonotis speluncaria" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria
"Pseudomonotis speluncaria" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria von Schlotheim 1816 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia spp. King 1848 oyster
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis minima Brown 1839 snail
Crinoidea
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites ramosus von Schlotheim 1816 Sea lily