Also known as Arenaceous Beds, Shineton Shales Formation
Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 73.7° S, 17.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Shumardia (Conophrys) salopiensis trilobite zone, Arenaceous Beds Member (Shineton Shales Formation), Migneintian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)
• Listed as Shumardia salopiensis/pusilla age; PJW: the first is a British trilobite zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; poorly lithified, bioturbated, micaceous, gray, green, sandy shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: Not sure whether pooled samples or single large sample; abundance data only for trilobites
Primary reference: R. A. Fortey and R. M. Owens. 1991. A trilobite fauna from the highest Shineton Shales in Shropshire, and the correlation of the latest Tremadoc. Geological Magazine 128:437-464 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75116: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 24.09.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Stylophora | |
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Anatifopsis sp. Barrande 1872 | |
| Eocrinoidea | |
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Eocrinoidea indet. Jaekel 1918 | |
| Artiopoda | |
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Litagnostus meniscus Fortey and Owens 1991 | |
| Trilobita | |
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Parapilekia sp. Kobayashi 1934 trilobite | |
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Asaphellus homfrayi Salter 1866 trilobite | |
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Pseudokainella impar trilobite
Apatokephalus sarculum n. sp. Fortey and Owens 1991 trilobite | |
Skljarella cracens n. sp.
Skljarella cracens n. sp. Fortey and Owens 1991 trilobite | |
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Shumardia (Conophrys) salopiensis Callaway 1877 trilobite | |
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Leptoplastides salteri Callaway 1877 trilobite | |
| Lingulata | |
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Lingulata indet. Gorjansky and Popov 1985 | |
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Eurytreta sp. Rowell 1966 | |