Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° S, 19.7° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ffairfach Flags and Grits Formation, Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)
• Ffairfach Section Sample F53
•JA: originally entered as Lower Llandeilo and resolved to the formation level, but Upper Llanvirn according to the authors and certainly resolved to the bed level
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified limestone and lithified, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve
Primary reference: A. Williams, M. G. Lockley, and J. M. Hurst. 1981. Benthic palaeocommunities represented in the Ffairfach Group and coeval Ordovician successions of Wales. Palaeontology 24(4):661-694 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 69585: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Arnold Miller on 27.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Basilicus tyrannus Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dalmanella parva Williams 1949 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella antiqua" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua
"Sowerbyella antiqua" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua Jones 1928 | |
Inarticulata | |