Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.2° S, 23.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus gregarius graptolite zone, Newlands Farm Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, blue, calcareous siltstone and 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 188534: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Dicranopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Opsypharus maccallumi Salter 1867 trilobite
Kosovopeltis cunctatum trilobite | |
Stenopareia glochin Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Encrinurus squarrosus Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Hadromeros elongatus Reed 1931 trilobite | |
Calymene ubiquitosus trilobite | |
Acernaspis superciliexcelsis Howells 1982 trilobite |