Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.3° S, 24.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: High Mains Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; brown sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: A. W. Owen. 1986. The uppermost Ordovician (Hirnantian) trilobites of Girvan, SW Scotland with a review of coeval trilobite faunas. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 77:231-239 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181876: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.10.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Flexicalymene scotica Lamont 1949 trilobite | |
Achatella cf. truncatocaudata Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Hemiarges extremus Owen 1986 trilobite |