Quarry west of Ford Hall (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: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, brown dolomite

• "Brown bedded dolomite"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Trechmann; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: C. T. Trechmann. 1945. On some new Permian fossils from the Magnesian Limestone near Sunderland. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 100:333-354 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161505: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Polycoeliidae
"Petraia profunda" = Calophyllum columnare
"Petraia profunda" = Calophyllum columnare von Schlotheim 1813 horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
"Camarophoria multiplicata" = Stenoscisma multiplicatum
"Camarophoria multiplicata" = Stenoscisma multiplicatum King 1850
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
"Spirifer alatus" = Pterospirifer alatus
"Spirifer alatus" = Pterospirifer alatus von Schlotheim 1813
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula credneri Geinitz 1848
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847