Hilton Plant Bed Appleby Westmorland H2: Changhsingian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Klausipollenites schaubergeri microspore
(Potonie and Klaus) Leschik 1956
Cycadopites sp. microspore Wodehouse 1933
Taeniaesporites angulistriatus microspore
(Klaus 1963) Clarke 1965
Taeniaesporites novimundi microspore
Jansonius 1962
Taeniaesporites noviaulensis microspore
(Potonie and Klaus 1954) Clarke 1965
Taeniaesporites labdacus microspore
Klaus 1963
Taeniaesporites albertae microspore
Jansonius 1962
Protohaploxypinus cf. samoilovichii microspore
(Jansonius) Hart 1964
Illenites delasaucei microspore
(Potonie and Klaus) Grebe and Schweitzer 1962
Labiisporitus granulatus microspore
Leschik 1956
Lueckisporites virkkiae microspore
(Potonie and Klaus 1954) Clarke 1965
Falcisporites zapfei microspore
(Leschik 1955) Clarke 1965
Perisaccus granulosus microspore
(Leschik 1955) Clarke 1965
Vestigisporites minutus microspore
Clarke 1965
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 54.6° North, 2.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.1° North, 12.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:151 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Lopingian
Stage: Changhsingian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
*Period:Late/Upper Permian *Epoch:Zechstein
*International age/stage:Changxingian *Local age/stage:Zechstein
Key time interval: Changhsingian
Age range of interval: 254.14 - 251.902 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Hilton Plant Bed Local bed:H2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The junction between Penrith Sandstone and the Plant Beds is seen in the riverbank on the north side at the western end of Ash Bank Wood. Most of the Plant Beds are exposed in the river bluff on the south side of the beck and consist of a series of well-bedded, alternating sandstones and thin pale-grey or olive-green shales.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray marl
Secondary lithology:yellow sandstone
Lithology description: Grey marls and yellow sandstones, plant remains.
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original sporopollenin
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:22980
Authorizer:C. Looy Enterer:C. Looy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-07-06 06:53:07 Last modified:2018-11-26 17:58:29
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-06 06:53:07
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6605.ETE R.F.A. Clarke. 1965. British Permian saccate and monosulcate miospores. Palaeontology 8(2):322-354 [C. Looy/C. Looy/J. Cassara]