Morrell's Wood, Norbury, Shropshire (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 17.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Valantian. This is the very top of the Telyican

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: argillaceous shale

• arenaceous purple shales

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 56396: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"? Holopella cancellata" = Rhabdostropha cancellata
"? Holopella cancellata" = Rhabdostropha cancellata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira cornovica
Liospira cornovica Pitcher 1939 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira woodlandi" = Arjamannia woodlandi, Arjamannia inexpectans
"Lophospira woodlandi" = Arjamannia woodlandi Longstaff 1924 snail
Arjamannia inexpectans Hall and Whitfield 1875 snail
 Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae
Trochonema valenticum n. sp.
Trochonema valenticum n. sp. Pitcher 1939 snail