Where: England, United Kingdom (53.6° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 15.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Lower beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
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 117889: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pleurophorus costatus" = Permophorus costatus
"Pleurophorus costatus" = Permophorus costatus Brown 1839 clam in collection of London Geological Society
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"Axinus obscurus" = Schizodus obscurus
"Axinus obscurus" = Schizodus obscurus Sowerby 1821 clam | |
"Bakevellia antiqua" = Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi
"Bakevellia antiqua" = Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi Brown 1839 oyster |