Old Quarry 50 m south of church at Rudbaxton (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Loc. 38

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 18.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paraorthograptus pacificus graptolite zone, Slade and Redhill Mudstone Formation, Rawtheyan (448.8 - 445.2 Ma)

• Ashgill Shelly zone 6

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: NMW = National Museum of Wales

Primary reference: L. R. M. Cocks. 2014. The Late Ordovician brachiopods of southern Pembrokeshire and adjacent south-western Wales. Special Papers in Palaeontology 91:1-89 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185125: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Plaesiomys porcata M'Coy 1846
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Chonetoidea radiatula Barrande 1879
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania nilssoni Sheehan 1973
Christiania nilssoni sholeshookensis