South bank of Knockbain Burn, 650 yards SW of Millenderdale Farm (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as 2 miles WSW of Pinmore station

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 30.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Laggan Member (Balclatchie Formation), Aurelucian (458.4 - 456.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, blue, calcareous siltstone and lithified, calcareous mudstone

• Calcareous blue-grey greywackes

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165033: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Petrocrania "sp. 1" Raymond 1910
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Bimuriidae
Bimuria youngiana Davidson 1870
Bimuria youngiana recta
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Eoplectodonta semirugata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata Reed 1917
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
"Glyptomena girvanensis" = Glyptomenoides girvanensis Salmon 1942
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura sp. Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura sila Williams 1962
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites aff. parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus
"Orthambonites aff. parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus Cooper 1956
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Dolerorthis rankini Davidson 1883