St Bees Shales Whitehaven (Permian to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° N, 13.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: St Bees Marls Formation, Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• Bakevellia Sea Basin
• St Bees Shales

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: chemical

• Warrington m.s., IGS

Primary reference: J. Pattison, D.B. Smith, and G. Warrington. 1973. A review of Late Permian and Early Triassic biostratigraphy in the British Isles. The Permian and Triassic systems and their mutual boundary 220-260 [C. Looy/C. Looy/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27109: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 18.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Alisporites
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Alisporites sp. Daugherty 1941
1 genus
Falcisporites
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Falcisporites sp. Leschik 1956
1 genus
Lueckisporites
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Lueckisporites sp. PotoniƩ and Klaus
1 genus
Labiisporites
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Labiisporites sp. Leschik
1 genus
Taeniaesporites
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Taeniaesporites sp. Leschik
2 genera
Cycadopites
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Cycadopites sp. Wodehouse 1933
1 genus
Protohaploxypinus
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Protohaploxypinus sp. Samoilovitch 1953
3 genera
Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites sp. Jansonius 1962
1 genus