Welsh Pool, Powys, M2 (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Worcestershire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 14.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monoclimacis crenulata graptolite zone, Buttington Mudstone Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• crenulata to centrifigus, Telychian to Homerian. PJW: centrifugus is top of Telychian now. However, that zone does cross into Trewern Brook Mudstone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; green, red, blue mudstone

• maroon, green, and blue mudstones with some calcareous beds up to 6 inches thick.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: This reference is a taxonomic treatment of the trilobites of England and Wales. Localities at which the fossils occur are given for each species described. It is from this information that the list was put together. I therefore do notknow how the specimins were collected.

Primary reference: N.J. Curtis and P.D. Lane. 1997. The Llandovery trilobites of England and Wales. Part 1. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 151:1-50 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50280: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 11.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Trilobites only.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Proromma powysensis n. sp. trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Bessazoon buttingtonense n. sp. trilobite