Also known as Kirk Hill
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 23.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cystograptus vesiculosus graptolite zone, Mulloch Hill Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Elizabeth Gray in ~1850-1920; reposited in the BMNH, OUM, SM
• Collections also in Hunterian Museum (Glasgow University), Birmingham University, Grant Institute of Geology (Edinburgh University), Institute of Geological Sciences (Edinburgh), Palaeontologisk Museum (Oslo), National Museum of Wales, Royal Scottish Museum
Primary reference: Y. Howells. 1982. Scottish Silurian trilobites. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 135(561):1-70 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188530: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Opsypharus maccalumi trilobite | |
Stenopareia thomsoni trilobite | |
Cyphoproetus externus trilobite
Astroproetus scoticus Reed 1941 trilobite | |
Calymene ubiquitosus trilobite | |
Acernaspis cf. elliptifrons Esmark 1833 trilobite | |
Encrinurus squarrosus Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Hemiarges serus trilobite
Platylichas scoticus trilobite | |
Anacaenaspis callipareos Thomson 1857 trilobite
Leonaspis "sp. B" Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite |