Nicolella community, Berwyn Hills (Upper Pen-y-garnedd) (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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

• Calcareous siltstone; deeper midshelf

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
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira spp. Whitfield 1886 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites spp. Koken 1896 snail
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Eoplectodonta rhombica" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) rhombica
"Eoplectodonta rhombica" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) rhombica M'Coy 1852
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Kiaeromena sp. Spjeldnaes 1957
"Kiaeromena kjerulfi" = Kiaeromena (Kiaeromena) kjerulfi Holtedahl 1916
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Clitambonitidae "gen et. sp. indet." Winchell and Schuchert 1893
Vellamo sp. Opik 1930
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Nicolella actoniae de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
"Dolerorthis prolixa" = Dolerorthis duftonensis prolixa
"Dolerorthis prolixa" = Dolerorthis duftonensis prolixa Williams 1963
Dolerorthis duftonensis prolixa
 Orthida - Rhactorthidae
Rhactorthis cf. crassa Williams 1963
 Orthida - Cremnorthidae
Cremnorthis parva Williams 1963
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Howellites spp. Bancroft 1945
Dalmanella cf. modica Williams 1963
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829
 Lingulida - Lingulasmatidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa "stick indet." Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Stenopora sp. Lonsdale 1844
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Monticulipora sp. d'Orbigny 1850
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Broeggerolithus sp. Lamont 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Deacybele pauca Whittington 1965 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Brongniartella sp. Reed 1918 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
"Pharostoma sp." = Prionocheilus
"Pharostoma sp." = Prionocheilus Rouault 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
"Chasmops cambrensis" = Scopelochasmops cambrensis Whittington 1962 trilobite
Estoniops alifrons McCoy 1851 trilobite
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea "ossicles" Miller 1821 Sea lily