Raphiophorid facies at Carmathen, South Wales, UK (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 68.7° S, 19.4° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pibwr Member (Carmarthen Formation), Moridunian (478.6 - 471.8 Ma)

• Difficult to read name of member; JA: originally entered as Arenig, but the Carmarthen Formation is Moridunian according to Brenchley et al. 2006

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale

• Black blocky mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. A. Fortey and R. M. Owens. 1978. Early Ordovician (Arenig) stratigraphy and faunas of the Carmarthen District, southwest Wales. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 30(3):225-294 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3682: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 06.08.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Actinodontida - Cycloconchidae
Actinodonta sp. Philipps 1848 clam
originally entered as "Actinodonta" sp."
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx cetsarum trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Merlinia murchisoniae Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Olenida - Olenidae
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Phyllograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite