Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 23.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus cyphus graptolite zone, Mulloch Hill Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified 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 188532: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Lichas silvestris" = Neolichas silvestris, Hemiarges serus
"Lichas silvestris" = Neolichas silvestris Reed 1925 trilobite
Hemiarges serus trilobite | |
Cyphoproetus externus trilobite | |
Harpidella (Harpidella) newlandensis Begg 1950 trilobite | |
Kosovopeltis cunctatum trilobite
Opsypharus maccalumi trilobite | |
Stenopareia glochin Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Acernaspis xynon Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Encrinurus squarrosus Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Deiphon sp. Barrande 1846 trilobite
Hadromeros elongatus Reed 1931 trilobite | |
Calymene ubiquitosus trilobite | |
Anacaenaspis callipareos Thomson 1857 trilobite |