old quarry 400 m E of an ancient hillfort at Bryngwyn Hill (Ordovician to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Lluest Quarry on the west side of Allt-y-gader, near Llanfyllin

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 50.3° S, 17.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gaer Fawr Formation, Longvillian to Longvillian (457.2 - 454.0 Ma)

• "Gaer Fawr Fm.= late Burrellian to early Cheneyan", in Cocks (2010)

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. B. Whittington. 1938. New Caradocian brachiopods from the Berwyn Hills, North Wales. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 11) 2:241-259 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173756: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 13.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
"Sampo opiki n. sp." = Leangella (Leptestiina) derfelensis oepiki Whittington 1938
Sampo öpiki
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Gunningblandella brynensis Whittington 1938