Marshbrook Faulted Outlier, Shelve Outliers, Shropshire (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 16.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arenaceous Beds Member (Pentamerus Sandstone Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: argillaceous shale

• arenaceous purple shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 56395: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Temnodiscus cf. nitidula
Temnodiscus cf. nitidula Ulrich 1879 snail
 Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
"Plectonotus boucoti" = Plectonotoides boucoti
"Plectonotus boucoti" = Plectonotoides boucoti Peel 1974 snail
 Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae
? Pagodea valentica
? Pagodea valentica Pitcher 1939 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"? Holopella cancellata" = Rhabdostropha cancellata
"? Holopella cancellata" = Rhabdostropha cancellata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Globispira acuta n. sp., "Stenoloron aequilaterum" = Spiroraphe aequilatera
Globispira acuta n. sp. Pitcher 1939 snail
"Stenoloron aequilaterum" = Spiroraphe aequilatera Wahlenberg 1821 snail
var. shevlensis
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira cornovica
Liospira cornovica Pitcher 1939 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira pulchra" = Longstaffia pulchra
"Lophospira pulchra" = Longstaffia pulchra M'Coy 1844 snail