Eastern slope of Ben Suardal, Isle of Skye (Ordovician to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.2° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 57.2° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ben Suardal Limestone Formation (Durness Group), Tulean to Tulean (480.8 - 470.0 Ma)

• Ben Suardal Limestone Formation, precise horizon uncertain.

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 188721: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 14.09.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
Protocycloceras lamarki
 Dissidocerida - Troedssonellidae
Buttsoceras sp.
Buttsoceras sp. Ulrich and Foerste 1933
 Endocerida - Proterocameroceratidae
Proterocameroceras durinum