Whitley, marl-slate (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (55.1° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Raisby Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• "Marl-slate"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by King

• Repository: King collection, James Mitchell Museum, Galway, Ireland

Primary reference: W. King. 1850. Monograph of the Permian fossils of England. Palaeontographical Society 1-253 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90268: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
Acrolepis sedgwickii Agassiz 1833 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
"Palaeoniscus glaphyrus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus
"Palaeoniscus glaphyrus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus Agassiz 1835
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus striatus Agassiz 1833
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
"Palaeoniscus comtus" = Palaeoniscum freieslebeni, "Palaeoniscus elegans" = Palaeoniscum elegans
"Palaeoniscus comtus" = Palaeoniscum freieslebeni Blainville 1818
"Palaeoniscus elegans" = Palaeoniscum elegans Sedgwick 1829
 Palaeonisciformes - Pygopteridae
"Pygopterus mandibularis" = Pygopterus humboldti
"Pygopterus mandibularis" = Pygopterus humboldti Agassiz 1833