Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 30.2° W)
When: Upper Member (Stinchar Formation), Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)
• top of the Stinchar Limestone, Aldons Quarry. Immediately underlying the superstes Mudstones exposed beneath overthrust Benan Conglomerate in the south-eastern face of the main quarry at Aldons
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: nodular limestone
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 164931: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.01.2015
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Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Skenidioides aff. costatus Cooper 1956 | |
Cyrtonotella subfissicosta Reed 1917 | |
Taphrorthis aff. peculiaris, "Orthambonites parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus
Taphrorthis aff. peculiaris Cooper 1956
"Orthambonites parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus Cooper 1956 | |
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Phragmorthis buttsi Cooper 1956 | |
Paurorthis aff. fasciculata Cooper 1956 | |
"Protozyga rotunda" = Manespira rotunda
"Protozyga rotunda" = Manespira rotunda Cooper 1956 | |
Porambonites sp. Pander 1830 | |
Camerella cf. minuta Cooper 1956 | |
Strophomenata | |
Bimuria cf. buttsi Cooper 1956
Craspedelia cf. marginata Cooper 1956 | |
Xenambonites cf. undosus Cooper 1956
Ptychoglyptus cf. virginiensis Willard 1928 | |
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata Williams 1962 | |
Christiania sulcata Williams 1962 |