Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 23.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus cyphus graptolite zone, Mulloch Hill Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green 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 188531: 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
Stenopareia glochin Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Cyphoproetus externus trilobite
Astroproetus scoticus Reed 1941 trilobite | |
Calymene ubiquitosus trilobite | |
Acernaspis cf. elliptifrons Esmark 1833 trilobite | |
Encrinurus squarrosus Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Deiphon sp. Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
"Lichas silvestris" = Neolichas silvestris, Hemiarges serus, Hemiarges "sp. A", Platylichas scoticus
"Lichas silvestris" = Neolichas silvestris Reed 1925 trilobite
Hemiarges serus trilobite
Platylichas scoticus trilobite | |
Anacaenaspis callipareos Thomson 1857 trilobite
Leonaspis cf. deflexa trilobite
Leonaspis "sp. B" Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
Leonaspis "sp. D" Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite |