Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 29.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ardwell Farm Formation (Ardwell Group), Burrellian (456.6 - 452.5 Ma)
• Basal beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; gray, blue mudstone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: A. Williams. 1962. The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda. Memoir - Geological Society of London 3:1-267 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 165048: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Oxoplecia subborealis Davidson 1883 | |
? Dactylogonia multicorrugata Reed 1917 | |
Sericoidea aff. abdita Whittington and Williams 1955 | |
"Eoplectodonta semirugata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata
"Eoplectodonta semirugata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata Reed 1917 | |
Isophragma pseudoretroflexum Reed 1917 | |
Craspedelia gabata Williams 1962 | |
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Leptellina llandeiloensis Davidson 1883 | |
Christiania perrugata Reed 1945 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rostricellula ardmillanensis Reed 1917 | |
Paucicrura sila Williams 1962 | |
Laticrura sp. Cooper 1956 | |
Orthambonites ardmillanensis, "Orthambonites aff. parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus
Orthambonites ardmillanensis Reed 1917
"Orthambonites aff. parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus Cooper 1956 | |
Glyptorthis balclatchiensis Davidson 1883 | |
"Orthambonites subplicatellus" = Dinorthis subplicatella
"Orthambonites subplicatellus" = Dinorthis subplicatella Reed 1917 | |
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Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
"? Cyclospira cf. longa" = Idiospira longa
"? Cyclospira cf. longa" = Idiospira longa Cooper 1956 |