Welsh Borderland, locality 20 (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 11.8° W)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Downton Castle Sandstone Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: Based on Calef and Hancock 1974 (ref. 6660). Abundance data are given, but only brachiopods are treated in detail. This is similar to PBDB coll. 523, but that collections are not identical.

Primary reference: C. G. Miller. 1995. Ostracode and conodont distribution across the Ludlow/Pridoli boundary (Silurian) of Wales and the welsh borderland. British Library Supplementary Publication 38(3):341-384 [E. Jarochowska/P. Nätscher]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184289: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.02.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
Coryssognathus dubius Wang 1980 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina confluens, "Ozarkodina remscheidensis" = Nicollidina remscheidensis
Ozarkodina confluens Rhodes 1953 conodont
"Ozarkodina remscheidensis" = Nicollidina remscheidensis Ziegler 1960 conodont
Subspecies "Ozarkodina remscheidensis eosteinhornensis (1)"
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata
"Ozarkodina excavata" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus serratus, "Panderodus recurvatus" = Panderodus panderi
Panderodus serratus Rexroad 1967 conodont
"Panderodus recurvatus" = Panderodus panderi Stauffer 1940 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus cf. sancticlairi Cooper 1976 conodont