Shelve District, Shropshire, Costonian, Spy Wood Grit, Locality 1 (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.8° S, 17.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Spy Wood Grit Formation, Costonian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; calcareous sandstone

Primary reference: A. Williams. 1974. Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology), Supplement 11:1-158 [m. patzkowsky/Z. Krug/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45273: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 18.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Bystromena perplexa Williams 1974
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis viriosa Williams 1974
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Trematidae
 Lingulida - Obolidae