Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 29.7° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Baltoniodus alobatus conodont zone, Ardwell Farm Formation (Ardwell Group), Burrellian (456.6 - 452.5 Ma)
• Lower part of formation. Given as Llandeilo Flags by Donald, but that is incorrect.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. G. Donald. 1902. On some of the Proterozoic Gasteropoda which have been referred to Murchisonia and Pleurotomaria, with descriptions of new subgenera and species. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 58(4):313-339 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 156584: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Paragastropoda | |
Mimospira balclatchiensis Longstaff 1924 | |
Gastropoda | |
Tetranota carrickensis Reed 1921 snail | |
"Zonidiscus transiens" = Joleaudella transiens
"Zonidiscus transiens" = Joleaudella transiens Reed 1921 snail | |
Pterotheca girvanensis Reed 1909 snail | |
"Sinuites maccallumi" = Strangulites maccallumi, Sinuites discoides
"Sinuites maccallumi" = Strangulites maccallumi Reed 1921 snail
Sinuites discoides Reed 1921 snail | |
Lophospira ferruginea Donald 1906 snail | |
"Pleurotomaria (Palaeoschisma) girvanense n. sp." = Palaeoschisma girvanense
"Pleurotomaria (Palaeoschisma) girvanense n. sp." = Palaeoschisma girvanense Donald 1902 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam | |
Goniophora antiqua clam
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Ambonychia sp., "Cleionychia undata" = Clionychia undata
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
"Cleionychia undata" = Clionychia undata Emmons 1842 clam | |
Leptodesma ardmillanensis oyster |