Ramsey Island, Dyfed, Porth Gain Beds (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.9° N, 5.3° W: paleocoordinates 68.4° S, 21.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Porth Gain Bed Member (Ogof Hen Formation), Whitlandian (473.8 - 470.7 Ma)

• PJW: Was Moridunian, but Porth Gain beds (sometimes put in Porth Gain formation) are Whitlandian.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. K. Donovan. 1984. Ramseyocrinus and Ristnacrinus from the Ordovician of Britain. Palaeontology 27:623-634 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166616: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 20.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Tetragonocrinida - Tetragonocrinidae
"Dendrocrinus cambriensis" = Ramseyocrinus cambriensis
"Dendrocrinus cambriensis" = Ramseyocrinus cambriensis Hicks 1873 Sea lily