Roker (Howse collection) (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Durham, United Kingdom (54.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Howse collection, Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Specimens later figured by Davidson (1858) were as of 1963 in Geological Survey Museum, London.

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 130875: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
"Myoconcha costata" = Permophorus costatus
"Myoconcha costata" = Permophorus costatus Brown 1839 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
"Axinus obscurus" = Schizodus obscurus
"Axinus obscurus" = Schizodus obscurus Sowerby 1821 clam