eastern end of Tormitchell Quarry (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 32.3° W)

When: Stinchar Formation, Abereiddian (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• Lower to middle part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Platy limestones

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 164929: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella problematica n. gen. n. sp.
Girvanella problematica n. gen. n. sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Multicostella aff. plena
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus
"Orthambonites parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Ptychopleurella rectangulata, Hesperorthis australis
Ptychopleurella rectangulata Cooper 1956
Ptychopleurella rectangulata laciniata
Hesperorthis australis Cooper 1956
Hesperorthis australis exitis
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata, Glyptambonites aff. glyptus
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata Williams 1962