Claxheugh Railway Cutting 12, Sunderland: Wuchiapingian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina cristata (von Schlotheim 1816)
Gastropoda - Araeonematidae
Yunnania tunstallensis
Gastropoda - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis minima (Brown 1839)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon striatus (von Schlotheim 1816)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Liebea squamosa (Sowerby 1829)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp. King 1848
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Tyne and Wear
Coordinates: 54.9° North, 1.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.5° North, 14.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Lopingian
Stage: Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
Key time interval: Wuchiapingian
Age range of interval: 259.51 - 254.14 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ford
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified dolomite
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: Reef core
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:89587
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-06-03 16:21:50 Last modified:2019-03-22 22:09:42
Access level:the public Released:2009-06-03 16:21:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6813. 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]