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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Laticrura sp. Cooper 1956 | |
Paucicrura sila Williams 1962 | |
"Orthambonites aff. parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus
"Orthambonites aff. parvicrassicostatus" = Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus Cooper 1956 | |
Glyptorthis balclatchiensis Davidson 1883 | |
Dolerorthis rankini Davidson 1883 | |
Strophomenata | |
Anisopleurella balclatchiensis, "Eoplectodonta semirugata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata
Anisopleurella balclatchiensis Reed 1917
"Eoplectodonta semirugata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) semirugata Reed 1917 | |
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Leptellina llandeiloensis Davidson 1883
Palaeostrophomena subarachnoidea Reed 1917 | |
"Glyptomena girvanensis" = Glyptomenoides girvanensis, ? Glyptomena brumalis
"Glyptomena girvanensis" = Glyptomenoides girvanensis Salmon 1942
? Glyptomena brumalis Reed 1917 | |
Craniata | |
Petrocrania "sp. 1" Raymond 1910 |