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
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 | |
"Petraia profunda" = Calophyllum columnare
"Petraia profunda" = Calophyllum columnare von Schlotheim 1813 horn coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Camarophoria multiplicata" = Stenoscisma multiplicatum
"Camarophoria multiplicata" = Stenoscisma multiplicatum King 1850 | |
"Spirifer alatus" = Pterospirifer alatus
"Spirifer alatus" = Pterospirifer alatus von Schlotheim 1813 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula credneri Geinitz 1848 | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 |