Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 29.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Laggan Member (Balclatchie Formation), Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, blue, calcareous siltstone and lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. E. Stewart and A. W. Owen. 2008. Probing the deep shelf: a Lagerstätte from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan, southwestern Scotland. Lethaia 41(5):139-146 [A. Miller/S. Kolbe]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 115303: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Sarah Kolbe on 01.09.2011, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
Conulariidae indet. Walcott 1886 jellyfish | |
Stylophora | |
Anatifopsis sp. Barrande 1872 | |
Ctenocystoidea | |
Conollia sporranoides n. sp.
Conollia sporranoides n. sp. Rahman et al. 2015 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
unclassified | |
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Polychaeta | |
Polychaeta indet. Grube 1850
? Sphenothallus sp. Hall 1847 | |
Tergomya | |
Archinacella sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 | |
Polyplacophora | |
Solenocaris solenoides chiton | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida Dall 1889 clam | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Diacanthaspis trippi trilobite |