Rorrington, Shropshire, Spy Wood Grit Fm. (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.7° S, 18.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Spy Wood Grit Formation, Costonian (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• "Spy Wood Sandstone = Aurelucian", in Cocks (2010)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. D. Wright. 1981. The External Surface of Dictyonella and of other Pitted Brachiopods. Palaeontology 24(3):443-481 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165232: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 15.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Bystromena perplexa Williams 1974
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Salacorthis costellata Williams 1979