Pinmore (trilobites) (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 29.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Climatograptus wilsoni graptolite zone, Ardwell Farm Formation (Ardwell Group), Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)

• Basal beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; siltstone and mudstone

• Greywackes

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by R. P. Tripp

Primary reference: R. P. Tripp. 1980. Trilobites from the Ordovician Balclatchie and lower Ardwell groups of the Girvan district, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 71:123-145 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208124: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 20.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
Hemiarges angustifrons
Hemiarges angustifrons Tripp 1954 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Reedolithus subradiatus
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp., Lonchodomas sp.
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp., Robergiella neteorum
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
Robergiella neteorum Tripp 1980 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Decoroproetus jamesoni
Decoroproetus jamesoni Reed 1914 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Cyphoproetus sp.
Cyphoproetus sp. Kegel 1927 trilobite
 Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Dimeropyge sp.
Dimeropyge sp. Opik 1937 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Odontopleuridae indet.
Odontopleuridae indet. Burmeister 1843 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymeninae indet.
Flexicalymeninae indet. Siveter 1977 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pharostomatidae
Thulincola salteri
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax sp.
Calyptaulax sp. Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Sphaerocoryphe sp., Sphaerexochus sp., Ceraurinella sp.
Sphaerocoryphe sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
Sphaerexochus sp. Beyrich 1845 trilobite
Ceraurinella sp. Cooper 1953 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Cybelinae indet., Cybeloides aff. spinifera, Cybellela sp., Encrinuroides sp.
Cybelinae indet. Holliday 1942 trilobite
Cybeloides aff. spinifera Tripp 1954 trilobite
Cybellela sp. Reed 1928 trilobite
Encrinuroides sp. Reed 1931 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerella sp.
Pliomerella sp. Reed 1941 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenidae indet.
Illaenidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Hibbertia balclatchiensis
Hibbertia balclatchiensis Whittington 1950 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Arthrorhachis girvanensis