Garth, G02 (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 16.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: acinaces - cyphus zone, shelly facies Member, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• No formation name. [Upper Rhuddanian assigned based on given graptolite zone.]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy siltstone

• "...consists of detrital sediments, but mainly mudstones and sandstones, and with a fauna predominantly of brachiopods."

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. T. Temple. 1987. Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales. Palaeontological Society Monographs 139(572):1-137 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3459: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Anisopleurella gracilis" = Kozlowskites gracilis, "Eoplectodonta duplicata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata
"Anisopleurella gracilis" = Kozlowskites gracilis Jones 1928
"Eoplectodonta duplicata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Rhynchonellata
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
"Skenidioides ? woodlandiense" = Skenidioides woodlandiensis
"Skenidioides ? woodlandiense" = Skenidioides woodlandiensis Davidson 1882
originally entered as "Skenidioides ? woodlandiense"
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
"? Hyattidina augustifrons" = Hindella angustifrons
"? Hyattidina augustifrons" = Hindella angustifrons Salter 1851
originally entered as "? Hyattidina augustifrons"
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Meifodia prima
Meifodia prima Williams 1951
ssp. indet.
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Mendacella mullockiensis
Mendacella mullockiensis Davidson 1869
llandoveriana morph
 Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Giraldiella cf. protensa
Giraldiella cf. protensa de Sowerby 1839
ssp. filitexta - originally entered as "Giraldiella cf. protensa"
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Schizonema capillatum