upper Tankerville Fm., Shropshire, UK (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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

• Blue-grey, flaggy shale with little arenaceous material

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

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Taxonomic list

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Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
"Segmentagnostus sp." = Corrugatagnostus
"Segmentagnostus sp." = Corrugatagnostus Kobayashi 1939
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Ectillaenus sp.
Ectillaenus sp. Salter 1867 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Bergamia sp.
Bergamia sp. Whittard 1955 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Cnemidopyge sp.
Cnemidopyge sp. Whittard 1955 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus sp.
Asaphellus sp. Callaway 1877 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Pricyclopyge sp.
Pricyclopyge sp. Richter and Richter 1954 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Placoparia sp.
Placoparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp.
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite