Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 21.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus spiralis graptolite zone, Lauchlan Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• Was in Monograptus crispus zone; however, this is now considered to be the Monograptus spiralis zone and Angochitina longicollis zone (Vandenbroucke, Verniers & Clarkson 2002)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, red mudstone 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 188539: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Proromma sp. Lane 1971 trilobite | |
Encrinurus mullochensis Reed 1931 trilobite | |
? Bumastus vulsus Howells 1982 trilobite
Stenopareia catathema Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Scotoharpes volsellatus Howells 1982 trilobite |