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: Gelli-grin Group, Longvillian (457.5 - 455.8 Ma)
• "Gelli-grin Group." Longvillian age.
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; mudstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 43640: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 17.08.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Oxoplecia sp. Wilson 1913 | |
Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) abigailae Cocks 2010 | |
Leptestiina oepiki Whittington 1938 | |
Sericoidea sp. Lindström 1953 | |
"Glyptomena cf. osloensis" = Oslomena osloensis
"Glyptomena cf. osloensis" = Oslomena osloensis Spjeldnaes 1957 | |
Leptaena ventricosa, "Macrocoelia prolata n. sp." = Colaptomena expansa prolata
Leptaena ventricosa Williams 1963
"Macrocoelia prolata n. sp." = Colaptomena expansa prolata Williams 1963 | |
Strophomena sp., Bellimurina incommoda n. sp.
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Bellimurina incommoda n. sp. Williams 1963 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Nicolella actoniae de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Dinorthis berwynensis Whittington 1938 | |
Dolerorthis duftonensis Reed 1910 | |
Rhactorthis crassa n. gen. n. sp.
Rhactorthis crassa n. gen. n. sp. Williams 1963 | |
Cremnorthis parva n. gen. n. sp.
Cremnorthis parva n. gen. n. sp. Williams 1963 | |
Bancroftina sp. Sinclair 1946
Dalmanella modica n. sp. Williams 1963
Onniella ostentata n. sp. Williams 1963 | |
Reuschella horderleyensis Bancroft 1929 | |
Salopia sp. Williams 1955 | |
Skenidioides cf. costatus Cooper 1956 | |
Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Craniata | |
Paracraniops macella n. gen. n. sp.
Paracraniops macella n. gen. n. sp. | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 |