450 yards WSW of Minuntion Farm, north side of Stinchar River (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Exposed in the bank of the pathway leading from the old limekiln to the quarry excavated in Stinchar Limestone, the River Stinchar and about 1½ miles north-east of Pinmore bridge (confinis Flags, Minuntion).

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 30.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hustedograptus teretiusculus graptolite zone, Confinis Formation (Barr Group), Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• Was Abereiddian; however, Fortey et al. (2000) put the Confinis formation in the Hustedograptus teretiusculus zone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: brown, calcareous siltstone

• Brown-weathering calcareous confinis siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: A. Williams. 1962. The Barr and lower Ardmillan series (Caradoc) of the Girvan District, south-west Ayrshire, with descriptions of the Brachiopoda. Memoir - Geological Society of London 3:1-267 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164928: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus
"Orthambonites parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis australis Cooper 1956
Hesperorthis australis exitis
Ptychopleurella rectangulata Cooper 1956
Ptychopleurella rectangulata laciniata
 Orthida - Phragmorthidae
Phragmorthis buttsi Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura pionodema Cooper 1956
 Atrypida - Protozygidae
"Protozyga rotunda" = Manespira rotunda
"Protozyga rotunda" = Manespira rotunda Cooper 1956
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Pentamerida - Porambonitidae
Porambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Gacella ponderosa Williams 1962
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Dactylogonia sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Macrocoelia macallumi" = Colaptomena macallumi
"Macrocoelia macallumi" = Colaptomena macallumi Reed 1917
 Strophomenida - Bimuriidae
Bimuria cf. buttsi Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata Williams 1962
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Isophragma extensum Cooper 1956
Isophragma extensum tricostatum
Lingulata
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
"Schizambon cuneatum" = Multispinula cuneata
"Schizambon cuneatum" = Multispinula cuneata Willard 1928
Schizambon cuneatum cavatum