Tunstall Hill (Sedgwick coll) (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

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Adam Sedgwick

Primary reference: A. Sedgwick. 1829. On the geological relations and internal structure of the Magnesian Limestone, and the lower portions of the New Red Sandstone Series in their range through Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Durham, to the southern extremity of Northumberland. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2 3(1):37-124 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117880: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Arca tumida" = Parallelodon striatus
"Arca tumida" = Parallelodon striatus von Schlotheim 1816 clam
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
"Spirifer minutus" = Streptorhynchus pelargonatus
"Spirifer minutus" = Streptorhynchus pelargonatus von Schlotheim 1816
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Paraspiriferinidae
"Spirifer multiplicatus" = Paraspiriferina multiplicata
"Spirifer multiplicatus" = Paraspiriferina multiplicata Sowerby 1829
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Epithyris elongata" = Dielasma elongatum1
"Epithyris elongata" = Dielasma elongatum1 von Schlotheim 1816
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
"? Camarophoria schlotheimi" = Stenoscisma schlotheimi1
"? Camarophoria schlotheimi" = Stenoscisma schlotheimi1 von Buch 1835