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
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 | |
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Trilobita | |
Ampyx cetsarum trilobite | |
Myttonia cf. fearnsidesi trilobite | |
Merlinia selwynii trilobite
Merlinia murchisoniae Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
Bienvillia praecalva trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Phyllograptus sp. Hall 1858 graptolite |