An t-Sron, Loch Eriboll (Salterella Grit, USNM collection) (Cambrian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (58.5° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 58.5° N, 4.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Salterella Grit Member (An t-Sron Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• Olenellus lapworthi indicates Bonnia-Olenellus zone, higher in Stage 4 (Rushton et al., 2011).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by E. Yochelson; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1983. Salterella (Early Cambrian; Agmata) from the Scottish Highlands. Journal of Paleontology 26:253-260 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176925: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Salterella maccullochi
  - Salterellidae
Salterella maccullochi Murchison 1859