Shelve District, Shropshire, Costonian, Spy Wood Grit, Locality 7 (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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

• Brachiopods only.
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella multipartita Williams and Cocks 1978
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Bystromena perplexa Williams 1974
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis viriosa Williams 1974
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella salopiensis Williams 1974
 Orthida - Harknessellidae
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
 Lingulida - Trematidae