Ardmillan Braes, Girvan, Ayrshire (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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

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Taxonomic list

Paragastropoda
 Mimospirida - Clisospiridae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Tetranota carrickensis Reed 1921 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Zonidiscus transiens" = Joleaudella transiens
"Zonidiscus transiens" = Joleaudella transiens Reed 1921 snail
 Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Pterotheca girvanensis Reed 1909 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
"Sinuites maccallumi" = Strangulites maccallumi Reed 1921 snail
Sinuites discoides Reed 1921 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira ferruginea Donald 1906 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
"Pleurotomaria (Palaeoschisma) girvanense n. sp." = Palaeoschisma girvanense
"Pleurotomaria (Palaeoschisma) girvanense n. sp." = Palaeoschisma girvanense Donald 1902 snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp., "Cleionychia undata" = Clionychia undata
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847 clam
"Cleionychia undata" = Clionychia undata Emmons 1842 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae