Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° S, 18.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Glyn Gower Siltstone Formation (Glyn Gower Group), Soudleyan (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)
• Represents the Glyn Gower Group. Middle Caradoc in age.
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•Glyn Gower Siltstone is now a formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; mudstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: A. Williams. 1963. The Caradocian brachiopod faunas of the Bala District, Merionethshire. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 8(7):327-471 [m. patzkowsky/Z. Krug/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43636: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 17.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Dinorthis berwynensis Whittington 1938 | |
Reuschella cf. horderleyensis Bancroft 1929 | |
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Macrocoelia prolata n. sp." = Colaptomena expansa prolata, ? Hedstroemina spp.
"Macrocoelia prolata n. sp." = Colaptomena expansa prolata Williams 1963
? Hedstroemina spp. Bancroft 1929 | |
"Sowerbyella sericea" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea
"Sowerbyella sericea" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea Sowerby 1839 |