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

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 29.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Diplograptus multidens graptolite zone, Burnside Conglomerate Member (Balclatchie Formation), Burrellian (456.6 - 452.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. D. Longstaff. 1924. Descriptions of Gasteropoda, chiefly in Mrs. Robert Gray's collection, from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Girvan. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 80(4):408-446 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169263: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 13.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
"Lesueurilla balclatchiensis n. sp." = Pachystrophia balclatchiensis
"Lesueurilla balclatchiensis n. sp." = Pachystrophia balclatchiensis Longstaff 1924 snail
 Euomphalina - Helicotomidae
Boucotspira ordovicus5 Longstaff 1924 snail
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
"Liospira disciformis n. sp." = Pararaphistoma disciformis
"Liospira disciformis n. sp." = Pararaphistoma disciformis Longstaff 1924 snail
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
 Bellerophontida - Temnodiscidae
"Oxydiscus hunteri" = Alaskadiscus hunteri3
"Oxydiscus hunteri" = Alaskadiscus hunteri3 Cowper Reed 1921 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
? Sinuites separatus3 Reed 1921 snail
Sinuites discoides3 Reed 1921 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Kokenospira maccullochi n. sp.3, "Bucania evoluta" = Loxobucania evoluta3
Kokenospira maccullochi n. sp.3 Reed 1921 snail
"Bucania evoluta" = Loxobucania evoluta3 Reed 1921 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Salpingostoma buccinoideum" = Groomodiscus buccinoideum3
"Salpingostoma buccinoideum" = Groomodiscus buccinoideum3 Reed 1921 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
? Plethospira caledoniensis Longstaff 1924 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira striatula n. sp. Longstaff 1924 snail
Liospira aequalis4 Salter 1859 snail
Liospira æqualis
Eotomaria subplana n. sp. Longstaff 1924 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae