Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 4.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 46.5° S, 88.4° W (Wright 2013)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Didymograptus murchisoni graptolite zone, Ffairfach Pebbly Sands Formation (Ffairfach Group), Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)
• Ffairfach Section Sample S3
•JA: originally entered as Lower Llandeilo and resolved to the formation level, but Upper Llanvirn according to the authors and certainly resolved to the bed level
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; sandstone and conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve
Primary reference: A. Williams, M. G. Lockley, and J. M. Hurst. 1981. Benthic palaeocommunities represented in the Ffairfach Group and coeval Ordovician successions of Wales. Palaeontology 24(4):661-694 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3317: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 29.07.1999, edited by Arnold Miller
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Basilicus tyrannus Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
Stenolaemata | |
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Strophomenata | |
Macrocoelia llandeiloensis Davidson 1871 | |
Hexactinellida | |
Hyalostelia fasicula glass sponge |