DR-1 [SM 79133 24763] (Cambrian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 5.2° W: paleocoordinates 84.0° S, 40.8° W)

When: Paradoxides (Mawddachites) hicksii zone, Menevia Formation, Menevian (504.5 - 499.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• The lower beds are laminated dark & light grey mudstones with thin sandstone layers and beds of metabentonite. The middle beds are similar, but darker and more pyritous, with fewer sandy beds. They contain phosphatic nodules and successive trilobite faunas.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: A. J. Rees, A. T. Thomas, M. Lewis, H. E. Hughes, and P. Turner. 2014. The Cambrian of SW Wales: Towards a United Avalonian Stratigraphy. Geological Society of London 42 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198942: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.01.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Protospongia "spicules"
Protospongia "spicules" Salter 1864 glass sponge
Cincta
  - Sucocystidae
Elliptocinctus vizcainoi n. sp.
Elliptocinctus vizcainoi n. sp. Friedrich 1995
I am not sure that this is where Elliptocinctus vizcainoi is found; the text is vague
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Davidocinctus pembrokensis n. gen. n. sp.
Davidocinctus pembrokensis n. gen. n. sp. Friedrich 1993
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
Ptychagnostus granulatum, Tomagnostus fissus
Ptychagnostus granulatum
Ptychagnostus granulatum granulatum
Tomagnostus fissus Lundgren 1879
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis scutalis
Peronopsis scutalis
Peronopsis scutalis exarata & Peronopsis scutalis tenuis
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Paradoxides (Mawddachites) hicksii
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Micromitra sp.
Micromitra sp. Meek 1873
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
"Linnarssonia sagittalis" = Acrotreta sagittalis
"Linnarssonia sagittalis" = Acrotreta sagittalis Salter 1865
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp.
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866