Old quarry north of Meikle Letterpin Farm, 700 yards SW of Pinmore station (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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

• Conglomerates with a blue-grey mudstone matrix

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

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Oxoplecia subborealis Davidson 1883
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Sericoidea aff. abdita Whittington and Williams 1955
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Eoplectodonta semirugata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata
"Eoplectodonta semirugata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata Reed 1917
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
 Strophomenida - Bimuriidae
Bimuria youngiana Davidson 1870
Bimuria youngiana recta
Craspedelia gabata Williams 1962
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Bilobia etheridgei Davidson 1883
Bilobia etheridgei acuta
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura sila Williams 1962
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura sp. Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites ardmillanensis, "Orthambonites aff. parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus
"Orthambonites aff. parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
"Orthambonites subplicatellus" = Dinorthis subplicatella
"Orthambonites subplicatellus" = Dinorthis subplicatella Reed 1917
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis cf. australis Cooper 1956
Hesperorthis cf. australis exitis
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
"? Cyclospira cf. longa" = Idiospira longa
"? Cyclospira cf. longa" = Idiospira longa Cooper 1956