Shelve District, Shropshire, Upper Llanvirn, Betton Beds, Locality 7 (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 57.6° S, 17.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Betton Beds Formation, Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; siltstone

• Laminated siltstones

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 44402: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 09.09.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Tissintia prototypa
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Palaeoglossa attenuata