Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 60.2° S, 16.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Stapeley Shales Formation, Early/Lower Llanvirn (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Williams. 1974. Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology), Supplement 11:1-158 [m. patzkowsky/Z. Krug/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43966: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 30.08.2004

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