Where: England, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 17.1° N, 12.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hilton Plant Series Member, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)
• 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.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray marl and sandstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collection methods: bulk, chemical,
Primary reference: R.F.A. Clarke. 1965. British Permian saccate and monosulcate miospores. Palaeontology 8(2):322-354 [C. Looy/C. Looy/J. Cassara]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22946: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 04.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Falcisporites | |
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Pinopsida | |
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Lueckisporites | |
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Taeniaesporites | |
Taeniaesporites noviaulensis, Taeniaesporites angulistriatus, Taeniaesporites albertae, Taeniaesporites labdacus, Taeniaesporites bilobus
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Cycadopites | |
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Vittatina | |
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Protohaploxypinus | |
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Klausipollenites | |
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Vestigisporites | |
Vestigisporites minutus n. sp.
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