NL70S (Silurian to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° S, 16.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.4 - 438.5 Ma)

• Unless a conodont zone was explicitly stated, a Late Rhudd - Late Aeron age was entered because of the statement these beds are all "pre-sedgwickii Zone." Localities are referred to the measured transects f2, h1, i2, i3, j2, and l, of Cocks et al. 1984, p178, fig.3)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone and sandstone

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. T. Temple. 1987. Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales. Palaeontological Society Monographs 139(572):1-137 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4992: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 26.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

• "Brachiopods... form the overwhelming preponderance of early Llandovery shelly faunas in Wales."
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena haverfordensis" = Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis
"Leptaena haverfordensis" = Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis Bancroft 1949
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Leangella scissa Davidson 1871
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Eoplectodonta duplicata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata, "Anisopleurella gracilis" = Kozlowskites gracilis
"Eoplectodonta duplicata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
"Anisopleurella gracilis" = Kozlowskites gracilis Jones 1928
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"Plectatrypa tripartita" = Eospirigerina tripartita
"Plectatrypa tripartita" = Eospirigerina tripartita de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
ssp. nov.
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus pusillum de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
"Skenidioides ? woodlandiense" = Skenidioides woodlandiensis
"Skenidioides ? woodlandiense" = Skenidioides woodlandiensis Davidson 1882
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
"Clorinda ? undata" = Clorilamnulella undata
"Clorinda ? undata" = Clorilamnulella undata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839