Desertcreat, Pomeroy Inlier (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 6.6° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 27.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Killey Bridge Formation, Cautleyan (449.2 - 448.8 Ma)

• Was Bardahessiagh (Well Field); However, I think that it really should be Killey Bridge given that most things from Desertcreat are put in the Killey Bridge in later publications.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, micaceous, gray sandstone

• "The Bardahessaigh Formation was described by Mitchell (1977) as 'grey, fine-grained, micaceous sandstones and rarely corse conglomerates' [...]."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the BMNH

• GSM = British Geological Survey

Primary reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1921. A monograph of the British Ordovician and Silurian Bellerophontacea. The Palaeontographical Society 31:1-92 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154951: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.03.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Multiceratoidea - Apsidoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Ecculiomphalus bucklandi n. gen. n. sp.4, "Eccyliomphalus minor" = Ecculiomphalus minor2
Ecculiomphalus bucklandi n. gen. n. sp.4 Portlock 1843 snail
"Eccyliomphalus minor" = Ecculiomphalus minor2 Portlock 1843 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon alatus n. sp." = Cymbularia alatus4
"Bellerophon alatus n. sp." = Cymbularia alatus4 Portlock 1843 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
"Sinuites elongatus" = Strangulites elongatus
"Sinuites elongatus" = Strangulites elongatus Portlock 1843 snail
 Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Pterotheca transversa Portlock 1843 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Tremanotus portlocki Reed 1921 snail
Kokenospira lingualis Salter and Aveline 1854 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Pleurotomaria turrita n. sp." = Arjamannia turrita4
"Pleurotomaria turrita n. sp." = Arjamannia turrita4 Portlock 1843 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
"Orthis (Plaesiomys) discreta" = Campylorthis discreta5
"Orthis (Plaesiomys) discreta" = Campylorthis discreta5 Reed 1952
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Orthis cancellata" = Strophomena cancellata3 Portlock 1843
Gunnarella corrugatella3 Portlock 1843