Humbleton quarry, on the road to Durham (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: 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: lithified, brown limestone

• Hard buff-coloured crystalline limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Winch "received the following specimens" - collector and repository not stated.

Primary reference: N. J. Winch. 1817. Observations on the geology of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 4:1-101 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130866: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Alcyonite indet.
Casts of reticulated Alcyonite
Crinoidea
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
"Cyathocrinus ramosus" = Cyathocrinites ramosus2
"Cyathocrinus ramosus" = Cyathocrinites ramosus2 von Schlotheim 1816 Sea lily
"cap of the internal part of the vertebral column of the cap encrinite"
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
"Synocladia virgulacea" = Synocladia dubia2
"Synocladia virgulacea" = Synocladia dubia2 Schlotheim 1820
Casts of reticulated Alcyonite
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
"Fenestella retiformis" = Rectifenestella retiformis2
"Fenestella retiformis" = Rectifenestella retiformis2 von Schlotheim 1816
Impressions of a reticulated marine production resembling the genus Flustra
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
"Strophalosia goldfussi" = Dasyalosia goldfussi1
"Strophalosia goldfussi" = Dasyalosia goldfussi1 Münster 1839
species of Donax with hair-like spines
 Productida - Productidae
"? Productus horridus" = Horridonia horrida2
"? Productus horridus" = Horridonia horrida2 Sowerby 1822
Casts of Anomiae
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia "indet. 1" Linnaeus 1758 clam
Smooth-shelled bivalves, from the size of a pea to that of a cockle, resembling Donax
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Byssoarca tumida" = Parallelodon striatus2
"Byssoarca tumida" = Parallelodon striatus2 von Schlotheim 1816 clam
Casts of Arcae
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
"Mytilus squamosus" = Liebea squamosa2
"Mytilus squamosus" = Liebea squamosa2 Sowerby 1829 clam
Casts of bivalves, resembling muscles (sic)