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

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