SB01 (Silurian to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 3.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 16.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.4 - 438.5 Ma)

• Unless a conodont zone was explicitly stated, a Late Rhudd - Late Aeron age was entered because of the statement these beds are all "pre-sedgwickii Zone."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone and sandstone

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. T. Temple. 1987. Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales. Palaeontological Society Monographs 139(572):1-137 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4932: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 27.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

• "Brachiopods... form the overwhelming preponderance of early Llandovery shelly faunas in Wales."
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
"Strophonella (Eostrophonella) eothen" = Eostrophonella eothen
"Strophonella (Eostrophonella) eothen" = Eostrophonella eothen Williams 1951
sgn. (Eostrophonella)