Hilton Plant Bed Appleby Westmorland H44 (Permian of the United Kingdom)

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: 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; micaceous, gray sandstone

• Red, grey micaceous sandstone.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: 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 23126: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 10.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Illenites delasaucei
(Potonie and Klaus) Grebe and Schweitzer 1962
Perisaccus granulosus
(Leschik 1955) Clarke 1965
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus radialis podocarp
(Leschik 1955) Clarke 1965
Lueckisporites
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Lueckisporites virkkiae
(Potonie and Klaus 1954) Clarke 1965
Taeniaesporites
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Taeniaesporites albertae
Jansonius 1962
Cycadopites
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Cycadopites sp. Wodehouse 1933
(Wodehouse) Wilson and Webster 1946
Vittatina
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Vittatina hiltonensis
Chaloner and Clarke 1962
Protohaploxypinus
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Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites schaubergeri
(Potonie and Klaus) Jansonius 1962