Marsden Bay (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Durham, United Kingdom (55.0° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Ford Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.H. Fryer

• Repository: possibly at Museum of Practical Geology (some Howse collection brachiopods are there)

Primary reference: R. Howse. 1848. A catalogue of the fossils of the Permian system of the counties of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 1:219-264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130868: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
"Palaeoniscus glaphyrus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus
"Palaeoniscus glaphyrus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus Agassiz 1835