Lady Burn, Girvan (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Threave Glen, 5 miles northeast of Girvan, Ayrshire

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 27.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: South Threave Formation (Drummock Group), Rawtheyan (448.8 - 445.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Owens. 2004. Late Ordovician and early Silurian Proetida (Trilobita) from North-Western and Central Europe. Palaeontology 47(3):557-578 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165175: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 13.01.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Xenocrinidae
Xenocrinus multiramus n. sp.2 Ramsbottom 1961 Sea lily
Xenocrinus breviformis n. sp.1 Brower 1974 Sea lily
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Paraproetus girvanensis Nicholson and Etheridge 1879 trilobite