Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° S, 19.7° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus murchisoni graptolite zone, Ffairfach Flags and Grits Formation (Ffairfach Group), Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• Ffairfach Section Sample F6

•JA: originally entered as Lower Llandeilo and resolved to the formation level, but Upper Llanvirn according to the authors and certainly resolved to the bed level

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

Primary reference: A. Williams, M. G. Lockley, and J. M. Hurst. 1981. Benthic palaeocommunities represented in the Ffairfach Group and coeval Ordovician successions of Wales. Palaeontology 24(4):661-694 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3318: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 29.07.1999, edited by Arnold Miller

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