Also known as Breeden Hill or Breedon on the Hill

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 9.7° S, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Sowerby placed the fossil in the Magnesian Limestone (Late Permian) but the species (now the type of Levitusia) is typical of the Visean (Chadian) in England.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by S. Tennant, Esq

• The lamented S. Tennant, Esq.

Primary reference: J. Sowerby. 1822. No. LVI of the mineral conchology of Great Britain; or colored figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain 4:17-24 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116197: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.09.2011

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