Pusgill, near Dufton (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.6° S, 17.0° W)

When: Dicranograptus clingani graptolite zone, Corona Beds Member (Dufton Mudstone Formation), Longvillian (457.2 - 455.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: black, gray, calcareous mudstone and calcareous siltstone

• Fissile, thinly bedded and laminated, grey to black calcareous mudstone and siltstone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1921. A monograph of the British Ordovician and Silurian Bellerophontacea. The Palaeontographical Society 31:1-92 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172803: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.08.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites pusgillensis n. sp.
Sinuites pusgillensis n. sp. Reed 1921 snail