Hylton Castle Road Cuttings, Sunderland (Permian of the United Kingdom)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-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 reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Primary reference: A. Logan. 1963. The new brachiopod genus Howseia from the Permian Magnesian Limestone of Durham. Palaeontology 6(4):754-761 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112851: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.07.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Permophorus costatus Brown 1839 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon striatus von Schlotheim 1816 clam
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
"Streblochondria pusilla" = Streblopteria pusilla
"Streblochondria pusilla" = Streblopteria pusilla von Schlotheim 1816 scallop
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
"Pseudomonotis speluncaria" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria
"Pseudomonotis speluncaria" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria von Schlotheim 1816 scallop
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Liebea squamosa Sowerby 1829 clam