Also known as Was: Nicolella community, Berwyn Hills
Where: Wales, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.0° S, 17.3° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pen-y-garnedd Formation, Woolstonian (455.8 - 452.0 Ma)
• Was Soudleyan - Marshbrookian. Lower part of formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. K. Pickerill and P. J. Brenchley. 1979. Caradoc marine benthic communities of the South Berwyn Hills, North Wales. Palaeontology 22:229-264 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192390: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.03.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lophospira spp. Whitfield 1886 snail | |
Sinuites spp. Koken 1896 snail | |
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Eoplectodonta rhombica" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) rhombica
"Eoplectodonta rhombica" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) rhombica M'Coy 1852 | |
Plectambonitidae "gen et. sp. indet." Kozlowski 1929 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Kiaeromena sp. Spjeldnaes 1957
"Kiaeromena kjerulfi" = Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) kjerulfi Holtedahl 1916 | |
Strophomenidae "gen et. sp. indet." King 1846 | |
Clitambonitidae "gen et. sp. indet." Winchell and Schuchert 1893
Vellamo sp. Opik 1930 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Nicolella actoniae de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
"Dolerorthis prolixa" = Dolerorthis duftonensis prolixa
"Dolerorthis prolixa" = Dolerorthis duftonensis prolixa Williams 1963 Dolerorthis duftonensis prolixa
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Rhactorthis cf. crassa Williams 1963 | |
Cremnorthis parva Williams 1963 | |
Howellites spp. Bancroft 1945
Dalmanella cf. modica Williams 1963 | |
Lingulata | |
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa "stick indet." Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Stenopora sp. Lonsdale 1844 | |
Monticulipora sp. d'Orbigny 1850 | |
Trilobita | |
Broeggerolithus sp. Lamont 1935 trilobite | |
Deacybele pauca Whittington 1965 trilobite | |
Brongniartella sp. Reed 1918 trilobite | |
"Pharostoma sp." = Prionocheilus
"Pharostoma sp." = Prionocheilus Rouault 1847 trilobite | |
"Chasmops cambrensis" = Scopelochasmops cambrensis, Estoniops alifrons
"Chasmops cambrensis" = Scopelochasmops cambrensis Whittington 1962 trilobite
Estoniops alifrons McCoy 1851 trilobite | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea "ossicles" Miller 1821 Sea lily |