Where: United Kingdom (52.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.1° S, 19.4° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hustedograptus teretiusculus graptolite zone, Ffairfach Ashes and Lavas Formation, Llandeilo (461.1 - 458.4 Ma)
• Ffairfach Section Sample A2
•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, tuffaceous siltstone and lithified shale
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 69590: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Arnold Miller on 27.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Triplesia edgelliana Davidson 1869 | |
Macrocoelia llandeiloensis Davidson 1871 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dalmanella parva Williams 1949 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
"Flexicalymene cambriensis" = Flexicalymene cambrensis
"Flexicalymene cambriensis" = Flexicalymene cambrensis Salter 1865 trilobite | |
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite | |
Basilicus tyrannus Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
Hexactinellida | |
Hyalostelia fasicula glass sponge |