Bank Outlier, Minsterly, Shropshire (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 15.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mudstone Beds Member (Pentamerus Sandstone Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Valantian. This is the very top of the Telyican

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: argillaceous shale and limestone

• arenaceous purple shales with limestone band

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B.L. Pitcher. 1939. The Upper Valentian gastropod fauna of Shropshire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11(4):82-132 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172854: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.08.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Arjamannia inexpectans2
Arjamannia inexpectans2 Hall and Whitfield 1875 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"? Holopella cancellata" = Rhabdostropha cancellata
"? Holopella cancellata" = Rhabdostropha cancellata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira cornovica
Liospira cornovica Pitcher 1939 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Spiroraphe shelvensis2
Spiroraphe shelvensis2 Pitcher 1939 snail
Stenoloron aequilaterum shelvensis
 Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Plectonotoides boucoti1
Plectonotoides boucoti1 Peel 1974 snail
 Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Pterotheca avirostris
Pterotheca avirostris Huxley and Etheridge 1865 snail
1Peel 1974; 2Wagner 2023