PBDB Collection

Localities D & E, along St Martin's Cemetery (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Loc. 41

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° S, 18.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: St. Martin's Cemetery Member (Haverford Formation), Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• Sometimes called Cartlett beds; originally assumed to be early Llandovery, but now thought to span the Hi/Rh.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mudstone

• Green mottled mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V.M. Turnbull in 1900

Primary reference: L. R. M. Cocks and D. Price. 1975. The biostratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian of south-west Dyfed, with comments of the Hirnantia fauna. Palaeontology 18(4):703-724 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153336: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
Phacopida - Dalmanitidae	"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus "Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Phacopida - Homalonotidae	Brongniartella sp. Brongniartella sp. Reed 1918 trilobite
Proetida - Otarionidae	Otarion cf. megalops Otarion cf. megalops trilobite
Lichida - Lichidae	Lichas cf. laciniatus Lichas cf. laciniatus Wahlenberg 1818 trilobite
Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae	Diacanthaspis sladensis, cf. Leonaspis girvanensis Diacanthaspis sladensis trilobite cf. Leonaspis girvanensis trilobite
Rhynchonellata
Athyridida - Meristellidae	Hindella incipiens¹ Hindella incipiens¹ Williams 1951 Cryptothyrella crassa incipiens
Protorthida - Skenidiidae	Skenidioides sp. Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Orthida - Giraldiellidae	Giraldiella giraldi Giraldiella giraldi Williams 1951
Orthida - Dalmanellidae	"Dalmanella aff. testudinaria" = Dalmanella testudinaria, "Dalmanella ? biconvexa" = Dalmanella testudinaria "Dalmanella aff. testudinaria" = Dalmanella testudinaria Dalman 1828 "Dalmanella ? biconvexa" = Dalmanella testudinaria Dalman 1828
Orthida - Draboviidae	Hirnantia sagittifera Hirnantia sagittifera McCoy 1851
Strophomenata
Orthotetida - Triplesiidae	Cliftonia lamellosa Cliftonia lamellosa Williams 1951
Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae	"Eostropheodonta hirnantensis" = Eostropheodonta hirnantensis, "Eostropheodonta whittingtoni" = Eostropheodonta hirnantensis "Eostropheodonta hirnantensis" = Eostropheodonta hirnantensis M'Coy 1851 Eostropheodonta hirnantensis delicatula "Eostropheodonta whittingtoni" = Eostropheodonta hirnantensis M'Coy 1851
Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae	"Leptaena martinensis n. sp." = Leptaena rugosa, ? Mackerrovia jinei¹ "Leptaena martinensis n. sp." = Leptaena rugosa Dalman 1828 ? Mackerrovia jinei¹ Cocks 2014
Craniata
Craniopsida - Craniopsidae	Craniops sp. Craniops sp. Hall 1859
Craniida - Craniidae	Philhedra sp. Philhedra sp. Koken 1889
Lingulata
Lingulida - Lingulidae	Lingula sp. Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Lingulida - Discinidae	Orbiculoidea concentrica Orbiculoidea concentrica Wahlenberg 1821
Pterobranchia
Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae	Diplograptus cf. modestus Diplograptus cf. modestus graptolite
Blastoidea
Coronata - Stephanocrinidae	Stephanocrinus ramsbottomi² Stephanocrinus ramsbottomi² Donovan and Paul 1985 blastoid

¹Cocks 2014; ²Donovan and Paul 1985