Shelve District, Shropshire, Llandeilo, Meadowtown Beds, Locality 1 (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 17.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Meadowtown Beds Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)

• originally assigned to the Llandeilo

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; calcareous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone

• laminated calcareous siltstones or fine-grained sandstones with subordinate calcarenites.

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 45052: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 30.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina delicata
Rafinesquina delicata Williams 1974
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Tissintia immatura
Tissintia immatura Williams 1949
 Orthida - Harknessellidae
Horderleyella sp.
Horderleyella sp. Bancroft 1928
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella salopiensis
Dalmanella salopiensis Williams 1974
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis viriosa
Glyptorthis viriosa Williams 1974
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Pseudolingulidae
Pseudolingula spatula
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Palaeoglossa attenuata