Where: United Kingdom (52.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.0° S, 19.7° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hustedograptus teretiusculus graptolite zone, Ffairfach Conglomerate Formation (Ffairfach Group), Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)
• Ffairfach Section Sample C3
•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 conglomerate and lithified sandstone
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 69598: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Arnold Miller on 27.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dalmanella parva Williams 1949 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella antiqua" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua
"Sowerbyella antiqua" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua Jones 1928 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882 | |
Trilobita | |
Basilicus tyrannus Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
"Flexicalymene cambriensis" = Flexicalymene cambrensis
"Flexicalymene cambriensis" = Flexicalymene cambrensis Salter 1865 trilobite | |
Hexactinellida | |
Hyalostelia fasicula glass sponge |