Gardens of houses southeast of Humbleton Hill (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Durham, United Kingdom (54.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° 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 well-bedded crystalline 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 161506: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Microdomatidae
"Turbo helicinus" = Tunstallia helicina
"Turbo helicinus" = Tunstallia helicina von Schlotheim 1820 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Arca tumida" = Parallelodon striatus
"Arca tumida" = Parallelodon striatus von Schlotheim 1816 clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Bakevellia antiqua" = Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi
"Bakevellia antiqua" = Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi Brown 1839 oyster
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Strophalosia sp. King 1844
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
"Spiriferina cristata" = Spiriferellina cristata
"Spiriferina cristata" = Spiriferellina cristata von Schlotheim 1816
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
"Camarophoria sp." = Stenoscisma
"Camarophoria sp." = Stenoscisma Conrad 1839