Loc. 08b. Prendergast Place (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 5.0° W: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 18.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ashgill Shelly Zone 5 brachiopod zone, Sholeshook Formation, Rawtheyan (448.8 - 445.2 Ma)

• Uppermost bed of the Sholeshook.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous limestone

• "The formation is typically an argillaceous-calcareous or arenaceous-calcareous rock (often not a true limestone), easily weathered to rottenstone and characterised by a particularly rich and varied trilobite fauna with abundant cystoids and brachiopods also." (Price, 1973, Geol. J. 8(2)).

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: NMW = National Museum of Wales

Primary reference: D. Price. 1974. Trilobites from the Sholeshook Limestone (Ashgill) of South Wales. Palaeontology 17(4):841-868 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192324: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 22.03.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia bowmanni
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene cavei
Flexicalymene cavei Price 1974 trilobite