Gallt-yr-Anker, NW of Meifod, Powys (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Alt yr Anker, Allt yr Anker, Gallt-yr-Ancr

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 52.5° S, 18.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Gaer Fawr Formation, Longvillian (457.2 - 455.0 Ma)

• Lowest part of the formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. R. Cocks. 2010. Caradoc Strophomenoid and Plectambonitoid Brachiopods from Wales and the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 53(5):1155-1200 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173784: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 14.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Colaptomena expansa de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Colaptomena expansa expansa