Shineton (Sheinton) (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Shineton Shale, Upper Tremadoc, Shropshire, UK

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 73.8° S, 17.7° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Arenaceous Member (Shineton Shale Formation), Migneintian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• Fissile, micaceous blue shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. J. Stubblefield and O. M. B. Bulman. 1927. The Shineton Shales of the Wrekin District. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 83:96-146 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3710: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 07.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Protospongia sp. Salter 1864 glass sponge
originally entered as "Protospongia" sp."
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Bellerophon shinetonensis n. sp." = Strepsodiscus shinetonensis
"Bellerophon shinetonensis n. sp." = Strepsodiscus shinetonensis Callaway 1877 snail
originally entered as "Bellerophon" sp."
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Archaeorthidae
"Eoorthis aff. wimani" = Archaeorthis wimani
"Eoorthis aff. wimani" = Archaeorthis wimani Walcott 1905
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes magnificus
originally entered as "Hyolithus" sp."
 Orthothecida - Orthothecidae
Orthotheca lineata
originally entered as "Orthotheca" sp."
Ostracoda
 Leperditellocopida - Primitiidae
? Primitia sp. Jones and Holl 1923 ostracod
originally entered as "Primitia? sp."
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Orometopus pyrus n. sp. trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
"Shumardia pusilla" = Conophrys pusilla
"Shumardia pusilla" = Conophrys pusilla Sars 1835 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Platypeltoides croftii Callaway 1877 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
"Cyclopyge genatenta" = Prospectatrix genatenta
"Cyclopyge genatenta" = Prospectatrix genatenta Stubblefield and Bulman 1927 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphellus homfrayi Salter 1866 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Apatokephalus serratus Boeck 1838 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Dichelepyge sp., "? Macropyge chermi" = Macropyge, "Lichapyge cuspidata" = Macropyge
Dichelepyge sp. Harrinton and Leanza 1952 trilobite
"? Macropyge chermi" = Macropyge trilobite
originally entered as "Macropyge? sp."
"Lichapyge cuspidata" = Macropyge trilobite
 Asaphida - Hungaiidae
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Proteuloma monile trilobite
Euloma monile or Concoryphe monile
 Olenida - Olenidae
Leptoplastides salteri Callaway 1877 trilobite
Parabolinella triarthurus trilobite
Olenus triarthurus
Bienvillia sp. Clark 1924 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
"Agnostus calvus" = Micragnostus calvus
"Agnostus calvus" = Micragnostus calvus Lake 1906
 Rhombifera - Macrocystellidae
Macrocystella mariae n. gen. n. sp.
Macrocystella mariae n. gen. n. sp. Callaway 1877