Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 3.4° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 20.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Reservoir Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
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 188544: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Proetus cf. latifrons M'Coy 1846 trilobite | |
Harpidella (Harpidella) thomasi Clarkson and Howells 1981 trilobite |