Drummock, Girvan (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 27.3° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paraorthograptus pacificus graptolite zone, South Threave Formation (Drummock Group), Rawtheyan (448.8 - 445.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1906. The Lower Palaeozoic trilobites of the Girvan district, Ayrshire. Part 3. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 97-186 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153944: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Entered by taxonomic group.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Cheirurus (Cyrtometopus) octolobatus" = Pseudosphaerexochus octolobatus
"Cheirurus (Cyrtometopus) octolobatus" = Pseudosphaerexochus octolobatus M'Coy 1849 trilobite
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Kokenospira lingualis3 Salter and Aveline 1854 snail
Kokenospira lingualis girvanensis
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Zonidiscus grayi3 Reed 1921 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
? Lophospira trispiralis1 Donald 1906 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Eotomaria convexa" = Cataschisma convexa2
"Eotomaria convexa" = Cataschisma convexa2 Longstaff 1924 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"Stephanocosmia (Spiroecus) girvanensis" = Spiroecus girvanensis2
"Stephanocosmia (Spiroecus) girvanensis" = Spiroecus girvanensis2 Longstaff 1924 snail