Where: United Kingdom (53.5° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 15.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• In lower beds of yellow limestone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Henry Clifton Sorby
Primary reference: W. King. 1850. Monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society 1-253 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 130865: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium" sorbii n. sp.
"Dentalium" sorbii n. sp. King 1850 tusk shell |