Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.8° S, 28.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kiln Mudstone Member (Craighead Formation), Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. P. Tripp
• Collection in Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University
Primary reference: R. P. Tripp. 1954. Caradocian trilobites from the mudstones at Craighead Quarry, near Girvan, Ayrshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 62(3):655-693 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188938: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 21.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Eobronteus sp. Reed 1928 trilobite
Stygina sp. Salter 1853 trilobite | |
? Proetidae indet. Salter 1864 trilobite
? Cyphoproetus facetus n. sp. Tripp 1954 trilobite | |
"Otarion beggi n. sp." = Harpidella beggi, "Otarion isoplates n. sp." = Harpidella isoplates
"Otarion beggi n. sp." = Harpidella beggi Tripp 1954 trilobite
"Otarion isoplates n. sp." = Harpidella isoplates Tripp 1954 trilobite | |
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite | |
Flexicalymene shirleyi n. sp.
Flexicalymene shirleyi n. sp. Tripp 1954 trilobite | |
"Achatella consobrina n. sp." = Achatella (Achatella) consobrina, "Calliops brongniarti" = Calyptaulax brongniartii
"Achatella consobrina n. sp." = Achatella (Achatella) consobrina Tripp 1954 trilobite
"Calliops brongniarti" = Calyptaulax brongniartii Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
"Encrinurus praecursor n. sp." = Celtencrinurus praecursor, Atractopyge killochanensis n. sp., Cybeloides spinifera n. sp.
"Encrinurus praecursor n. sp." = Celtencrinurus praecursor Tripp 1954 trilobite
Atractopyge killochanensis n. sp. Tripp 1954 trilobite
Cybeloides spinifera n. sp. Tripp 1954 trilobite | |
"Ceraurinus craigensis n. sp." = Xylabion craigensis Tripp 1954 trilobite
? Nieszkowskia sp. Schmidt 1881 trilobite
Sphaerocoryphe psiles Tripp 1954 trilobite | |
Hibbertia trippi Whittington 1950 trilobite | |
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824 trilobite | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Amphilichas cf. hibernicus, Amphilichas sp., Amphilichas declivis n. sp., Amphilichas planus n. sp., Hemiarges antelucanus n. sp., Hemiarges angustifrons n. sp., Platylichas sp.
Amphilichas cf. hibernicus trilobite
Amphilichas sp. Raymond 1905 trilobite
Amphilichas declivis n. sp. Tripp 1954 trilobite
Amphilichas planus n. sp. Tripp 1954 trilobite
Hemiarges antelucanus n. sp. Tripp 1954 trilobite
Hemiarges angustifrons n. sp. Tripp 1954 trilobite
Platylichas sp. Gürich 1901 trilobite | |
? Diacanthaspis biaculeatus n. sp.
? Diacanthaspis biaculeatus n. sp. trilobite |