Tunstall Hill reef knoll, summit of higher knoll (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 limestone

• Brown and calcareous with the same radial crystalline structure

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 161513: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp.
Bakevellia sp. King 1848 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
"Camarophoria schlotheimi" = Stenoscisma schlotheimi, "Camarophoria globulina" = Coledium globulinum
"Camarophoria schlotheimi" = Stenoscisma schlotheimi von Buch 1835
"Camarophoria globulina" = Coledium globulinum Phillips 1834
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp.
Dielasma sp. King 1856
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus sp.
Thamniscus sp. King 1849
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Acanthocladia sp.