Bargany Pond Burn (= Lauchlan Burn), Girvan (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 21.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Stimulograptus sedgwickii graptolite zone, Wood Burn Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); siltstone

• Trilobites found in turbidite beds
• Cocks and Toghill 1973: Wood Burn Formation consists of hard, light coloured siltstones and sandstones grading upwards into softer, blue grey, siltstones and shales

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. N. K. Clarkson, N. Eldredge, and J.-L. Henry. 1977. Some Phacopina (Trilobita) from the Silurian of Scotland. Palaeontology 20(1):119-142 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170697: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 26.06.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• Trilobites found with brachiopod fauna. Gastropods added by Pete Wagner. PJW had Pterotheca multidecorata there, but that seems to have been a mistake.
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
"Strophonella penkillensis n. sp." = Katastrophomena penkillensis1
"Strophonella penkillensis n. sp." = Katastrophomena penkillensis1 Reed 1917
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena zeta1
Leptaena zeta1 Lamont 1947
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Promourlonia ambiqua2, Promourlonia furcata2
Promourlonia ambiqua2 Longstaff 1924 snail
Promourlonia furcata2 Longstaff 1924 snail
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis (Eskaspis) woodburnensis n. sp.
Acernaspis (Eskaspis) woodburnensis n. sp. Clarkson et al. 1977 trilobite
1Cocks 1968; 2Longstaff 1924