Where: England, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 65.6° S, 16.8° W)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tankerville Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)
• Only the Upper Arenig section of Fm. included here
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale and siltstone
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 3685: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 06.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
"Segmentagnostus sp." = Corrugatagnostus
"Segmentagnostus sp." = Corrugatagnostus Kobayashi 1939 | |
Trilobita | |
Ectillaenus sp. Salter 1867 trilobite | |
Bergamia sp. Whittard 1955 trilobite | |
Cnemidopyge sp. Whittard 1955 trilobite | |
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite | |
Pricyclopyge sp. Richter and Richter 1954 trilobite | |
Placoparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite |