Hasting Hill, quarry on west side (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.9° N, 1.5° 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: lithified 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 43669: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 22.08.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Astarte vallisneriana" = Astartella vallisneriana
"Astarte vallisneriana" = Astartella vallisneriana King 1848 clam