Bay Ogof Hen 088 ft. (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 5.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 47.1° S, 94.2° W (Wright 2013)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• JA: originally entered as Arenig, but the Ogof Hen Formation is Moridunian. PJW: Porth Gain beds (sometimes put in Porth Gain formation) are Whitlandian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, micaceous, silty mudstone

• Cleaved micaceous silty mudstones with shelly layers.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. E. B. Bates. 1969. Some early Arenig brachiopods and trilobites from Wales. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 18(1):1-28 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166753: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Systematics of trilobites, brachiopods, and bivalves
Crinoidea
 Tetragonocrinida - Tetragonocrinidae
Ramseyocrinus cambriensis Hicks 1873 Sea lily
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"? Megalaspidella murchisoniae" = Merlinia murchisoniae
"? Megalaspidella murchisoniae" = Merlinia murchisoniae Murchison 1839 trilobite