Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 3.4° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 18.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Llanfawr Mudstone Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)
• "Cyathophycus beds"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: J. P. Botting. 2004. An exceptional Caradoc sponge fauna from the Llanfawr Quarries, central Wales and phylogenetic implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2(1):31-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 120626: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Demospongiae | |
Xylochos palindromica Botting 2004 demosponge | |
Pirania llanfawrensis n. sp.
Pirania llanfawrensis n. sp. Botting 2004 demosponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
Granulispongia obscura Botting 2004 glass sponge | |
Cyathophycus loydelli n. sp.
Cyathophycus loydelli n. sp. Botting 2004 glass sponge | |
Hemidiagoniella sp. Botting 2004 glass sponge | |
Trilobita | |
Cnemidopyge sp. Whittard 1955 trilobite | |
Trinucleus sp. Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
Barrandia sp. M'Coy 1849 trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Climacograptus brevis climacograptid |