Cultra Shore (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.7° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 12.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Pattison. 1970. A review of the marine fossils from the Upper Permian rocks of Northern Ireland and north-west England. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain 32:123-165 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 208900: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis minima Brown 1839 snail
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
? Coelostylina obtusa Brown 1839 snail
? Coelostylina leighi Brown 1839 snail
 Euomphalina - Microdomatidae
"Glyptospira helicina" = Tunstallia helicina
"Glyptospira helicina" = Tunstallia helicina von Schlotheim 1820 snail
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
Schizodus obscurus Sowerby 1821 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon striatus von Schlotheim 1816 clam
"Arca like tumida" in Hull et al. 1871
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia (Bakevellia) cf. ceratophaga von Schlotheim 1816 oyster
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculidae indet. Gray 1824 nut clam