Llandysilio 7001a (Silurian to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 16.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.4 - 438.5 Ma)

• Rhuddanian - Aeronian inferred due to the statement that this age is "pre-Upper Llandovery, in that it is not yet possible...to distinguish the Lower from the Middle Llandovery (Rhuddanian and Idwian) [in this area]."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• Absolutely no litho info given.

Primary reference: J. T. Temple. 1975. Early Llandovery trilobites from Wales with notes on British Llandovery Calymenids. Palaeontology 18(1):137-159 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3495: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Trilobites form a numerically insubstantial part of Welsh early Llandovery shelly faunas [<2.6% of brachs]."
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Acernaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Ceratarginae indet." = Trochurinae
"Ceratarginae indet." = Trochurinae Phleger 1936 trilobite