Balclatchie, Ayrshire, Girvan (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 30.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hustedograptus teretiusculus conodont zone, Llandeilo Flags Member (Llandeilo Formation), Llandeilo (466.0 - 449.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. G. Donald. 1902. On some of the Proterozoic Gasteropoda which have been referred to Murchisonia and Pleurotomaria, with descriptions of new subgenera and species. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 58(4):313-339 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167924: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira variablis n. sp. Donald 1902 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
"Bucania evoluta n. sp." = Loxobucania evoluta, "Bucania gravida" = Loxobucania gravida
"Bucania evoluta n. sp." = Loxobucania evoluta Reed 1921 snail
"Bucania gravida" = Loxobucania gravida Reed 1921 snail