Ty-bach Cottage (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (53.3° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 59.2° S, 19.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Bod Deiniol Formation, Early/Lower Llanvirn (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• "early Llanvirn"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; green sandstone and conglomerate

• "shallow water surrounding an island or group of islands"
• "rock framgnets... in a greenish chloritic matrix"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• new collection from 1971

Primary reference: R. B. Neuman and D. E. B. Bates. 1978. Reassessment of Arenig and Llanvirn age (early Ordovician) brachiopods from Anglesey, north-west Wales. Palaeontology 21(3):571-613 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69097: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Pelmatozoa indet.
Pelmatozoa indet. Leuckart 1848
"scattered pelmatozoan plates"
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Antigonambonites sp.
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Atelelasma sp.
Atelelasma sp. Cooper 1956
 Strophomenida - Taffiidae
Ahtiella concava, ? Taffia sp.
Ahtiella concava Bates 1968
? Taffia sp. Butts 1926
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Productorthis sp.
Productorthis sp. Kozlowski 1927
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites sp.
Orthambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
? Platystrophia sp.
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
"cylindrical bryozoan zoaria"