Cornwall brachiopods, South Cornwall, UK (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.5° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 55.5° S, 20.6° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gorran Quartzites Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, black, gray sandstone

• Hard grey, black, and whitish, sometimes feldspathic quartzite, sometimes cross-laminated and sheet laminated

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. G. Bassett. 1981. The Ordovican brachiopods of Cornwall. Geological Magazine 118:647-664 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3308: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 29.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopod systematics
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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Crozonaspis sp.
Crozonaspis sp. Henry 1968 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Kloucekia sp.
Kloucekia sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Eccoptochile sp.
Eccoptochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Bathycheilidae
Bathycheilus sp.
Bathycheilus sp. Holub 1908 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus sp.
Neseuretus sp. Hicks 1873 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Homalonotus sp.
Homalonotus sp. König 1825 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Schalidomorthis sp.
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Corineorthis sp.
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
? Dalmanella sp.
? Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
originally entered as "Dalmanella? sp."
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Heterorthina sp.
Heterorthina sp. Bancroft 1928