Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.1° S, 24.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus cyphus graptolite zone, Woodland Formation, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, massive sandstone and lithified siltstone
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 188533: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Globulaspis prominens, "Leonaspis aff. varbolensis" = Exallaspis varbolensis, Miraspis ultima, "Ceratocephalina reperta" = Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina), Leonaspis "sp. A", Leonaspis "sp. B", Leonaspis "sp. E"
Globulaspis prominens trilobite
"Leonaspis aff. varbolensis" = Exallaspis varbolensis Bruton 1967 trilobite
Miraspis ultima trilobite
"Ceratocephalina reperta" = Ceratocephala (Ceratocephalina) trilobite
Leonaspis "sp. A" Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
Leonaspis "sp. B" Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite
Leonaspis "sp. E" Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite | |
Kosovopeltis cunctatum trilobite | |
Stenopareia acymata n. sp.
Stenopareia acymata n. sp. Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Hemiarges serus, Hemiarges "sp. B", Platylichas scoticus, Dicranopeltis sp., "Lichas silvestris" = Neolichas silvestris
Hemiarges serus trilobite
Platylichas scoticus trilobite
Dicranopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
"Lichas silvestris" = Neolichas silvestris Reed 1925 trilobite | |
Acernaspis superciliexcelsis Howells 1982 trilobite
Acernaspis xynon n. sp. Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Encrinurus squarrosus Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Hadromeros elongatus Reed 1931 trilobite
Deiphon sp. Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Calymene ubiquitosus trilobite | |
Harpidella (Harpidella) newlandensis Begg 1950 trilobite | |
Decoroproetus farragatus Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Cyphoproetus externus trilobite
Astroproetus scoticus Reed 1941 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta jamesoni n. sp." = Leptostrophia jamesoni
"Stropheodonta jamesoni n. sp." = Leptostrophia jamesoni Reed 1917 |