Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.8° S, 17.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Spy Wood Grit Formation, Costonian (460.9 - 457.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; calcareous sandstone
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 45279: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 18.10.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Sowerbyella multipartita Williams and Cocks 1978 | |
Kjaerina (Hedstroemina) sp. Bancroft 1929 | |
Bystromena perplexa Williams 1974 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Glyptorthis viriosa Williams 1974 | |
Salacorthis costellata Williams 1979 | |
Dalmanella salopiensis Williams 1974 | |
Lingulata | |
Palaeoglossa attenuata Sowerby 1839 | |