Beacon Hill, West Side Railway Cutting (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.8° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Logan. 1967. The Permian Bivalvia of northern England. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 121(518):1-72 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82794: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia elongata Howse 1848 clam
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
"Pseudomonotis speluncaria" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria
"Pseudomonotis speluncaria" = Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria von Schlotheim 1816 scallop
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
"? Streblochondria pusilla" = Streblopteria pusilla
"? Streblochondria pusilla" = Streblopteria pusilla von Schlotheim 1816 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Bakevellia binneyi" = Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi
"Bakevellia binneyi" = Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi Brown 1839 oyster
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Liebea squamosa Sowerby 1829 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon striatus von Schlotheim 1816 clam