Bay Ogof Hen 120 ft. (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Abercastle Beds Member (Ogof Hen Formation), Moridunian (477.7 - 473.8 Ma)

• JA: originally entered as Arenig, but the Ogof Hen Formation is Moridunian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy shale

• Sandy shales

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 166756: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Systematics of trilobites, brachiopods, and bivalves
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperonomiidae
Monorthis menapiae Davidson 1868
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Lenorthis alata" = Paralenorthis alata
"Lenorthis alata" = Paralenorthis alata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839