H2, Craighead inlier (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 24.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: High Mains Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: D. A. T. Harper. 1981. The stratigraphy and faunas of the Upper Ordovician High Mains Formation of the Girvan district. Scottish Journal of Geology 17(4):247-255 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 151601: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eostropheodonta aff. hirnantensis M'Coy 1851
originally entered as Eopholidostrophia aff. hirnantensis
 Strophomenida - Eopholidostrophiidae
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Fardenia cf. comes Marek and Havlíček 1967
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Eospirigerina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930
 Orthida - Draboviidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis sp. Foerste 1914
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula "sp. nov." Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella crassa Sowerby 1839