Also known as locality 2 of Peach et al. 1907, p. 626

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (58.6° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Acodus deltatus - Oneotodus costatus conodont zone, Balnakeil Formation (Durness Group), Stairsian to Stairsian (485.4 - 474.9 Ma)

• Horizon 33 m above the base of Balnakeil Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, thrombolitic carbonate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• Sclerite

Preservation: original aragonite

Primary reference: D.H. Evans. 2011. The Lower Ordovician cephalopod faunas of the Durness Group, North-West Scotland. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 165:1-131 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188696: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 14.09.2017, edited by Pete Wagner

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