Claxheugh Railway Cutting 18, Sunderland (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.9° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 dolomite

• Reef core

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Hollingworth and T. Pettigrew. 1988. Zechstein reef fossils and their palaeoecology. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 3:1-75 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89594: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.06.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Liroceratidae
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis minima Brown 1839 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Liebea squamosa Sowerby 1829 clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp. King 1848 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon striatus von Schlotheim 1816 clam
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus obscurus Sowerby 1821 clam
Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
Strophalosia sp. King 1844
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina cristata von Schlotheim 1816
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma elongatum von Schlotheim 1816