Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 15.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monoclimacis griestoniensis graptolite zone, Purple Shale Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Pterospathodus amorphognathoides conodont zone. Ebbestad & Guttierez-Marco report that this is from the Monoclimacis griestonensis graptolite zone. (I had Cyrtograptus centrifugus at first.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B.L. Pitcher. 1939. The Upper Valentian gastropod fauna of Shropshire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11(4):82-132 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56394: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.11.2005

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