Where: United Kingdom (52.9° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 73.2° S, 19.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dictyonema graptolite zone, Dol-cyn-afon Member (Cwmhesgen Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, black, gray, silty mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. W. A. Rushton. 1982. The biostratigraphy and correlation of Merioneth-Tremadoc Series boundary in North Wales. In M. G. Bassett, W. T. Dean (eds.), The Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary: Sections, fossil distributions, and correlations 3:41-60 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 229516: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 14.03.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
"Dictyonema flabelliforme" = Rhabdinopora flabelliformis
"Dictyonema flabelliforme" = Rhabdinopora flabelliformis Eichwald 1840 graptolite ex. gr. sociale, cf. parabola, and cf. desmograptoides
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Trilobita | |
Shumardia alata Robison and Pantoja-Alor 1968 trilobite | |
Lingulata | |
Acrotretidae indet. Schuchert 1893 |