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
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
Trilobita | |
Proromma powysensis n. sp.
Proromma powysensis n. sp. trilobite | |
Bessazoon buttingtonense n. sp.
Bessazoon buttingtonense n. sp. trilobite |