Locality K, railway cutting south of Haverfordwest (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Loc. 43

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: Haverford Mudstone Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: micaceous, green mudstone

• dark-green micaceous mudstones

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 153337: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.12.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella gracilis n. sp." = Kozlowskites gracilis, Eoplectodonta sp.
"Sowerbyella gracilis n. sp." = Kozlowskites gracilis Jones 1928
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Eospirigerina sp.
Eospirigerina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1930
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus Brongniart 1822 trilobite