South-east side of quarry, ½ mile north-east of Brockloch Farm (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as 1 mile east-north-east of Tormitchell Farm (top of the Stinchar Limestone, Brockloch).

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 29.8° W)

When: Upper Member (Stinchar Formation), Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• immediately below the superstes Mudstones. Earliest Sandbian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: green mudstone and limestone

• Green mudstones with limestone nodules

Size class: macrofossils

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 164937: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Eremotoechia cf. silicica
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Isophragma extensum
Isophragma extensum Cooper 1956
Isophragma extensum tricostatum
 Strophomenida - Bimuriidae
Bimuria cf. buttsi, Craspedelia cf. marginata
Bimuria cf. buttsi Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sulcata
Christiania sulcata Williams 1962
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata, "Leptellina rhacta" = Leptellina (Leptellina) rhacta, Palaeostrophomena aff. angulata
"Leptellina semilunata" = Leptellina (Leptellina) semilunata Williams 1962
"Leptellina rhacta" = Leptellina (Leptellina) rhacta Williams 1962
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Ptychoglyptus cf. virginiensis, "Sowerbyella cf. varicostellata" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata, Xenambonites cf. undosus
"Sowerbyella cf. varicostellata" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) varicostellata Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Glyptomena trippi
Glyptomena trippi Williams 1962
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Oxoplecia sp.
Oxoplecia sp. Wilson 1913
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Gacella insolita
Gacella insolita Williams 1962
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella cf. minuta
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
? Parastrophina sp.
? Parastrophina sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Valcourea sp., Multicostella sp.
Valcourea sp. Raymond 1911
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus, Taphrorthis aspera, Taphrorthis aff. peculiaris, "Orthambonites aff. tenuicostatus" = Sivorthis tenuicostatus
"Orthambonites parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus Cooper 1956
Taphrorthis aspera Williams 1962
"Orthambonites aff. tenuicostatus" = Sivorthis tenuicostatus Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
"Cyrtonotella subfissicostata" = Cyrtonotella subfissicosta, Nothorthis tarda
"Cyrtonotella subfissicostata" = Cyrtonotella subfissicosta Reed 1917
Nothorthis tarda Cooper 1956
Nothorthis tarda lata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Ptychopleurella rectangulata
Ptychopleurella rectangulata Cooper 1956
Ptychopleurella rectangulata laciniata
 Orthida - Phragmorthidae
Phragmorthis buttsi
Phragmorthis buttsi Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Scaphorthis cf. virginiensis
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Mimella cf. globularis, Plectorthis cf. australis
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthis aff. fasciculata
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura pionodema
Laticrura pionodema Cooper 1956
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides aff. costatus
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp.
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866