"Deeper shelf community," Tremadoc, Selenopeltis Province ( of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 73.0° S, 19.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• "Selenopeltis Province (N. Amer. is Batyurid Province)"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• no formation name given. "outer shelf, (~BA5) well-oxygenated, geosynclinal."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. S. McKerrow. 1979. Ordovician and Silurian changes in sea level. Journal of the Geological Society 136:137-144 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 280: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 21.03.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "McKerrow 1978. p58-59, fig.3"
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unclassified
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Broeggerina sp.
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp.
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
? Bellerophontida indet.
? Bellerophontida indet. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
originally entered as "? Bellerophontida indet."
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus sp.
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Platypeltoides sp.
Platypeltoides sp. Pribyl 1949 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia sp.
Shumardia sp. Billings 1862 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Euloma sp.
Euloma sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Agnostus sp.
Agnostus sp. Brongniart 1822
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
"Dictyonema flabelliforme" = Rhabdinopora flabelliformis
"Dictyonema flabelliforme" = Rhabdinopora flabelliformis Eichwald 1840 graptolite