Locality 19, Lampeter Velfrey (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Locality 19, Lampeter Velfrey, SW Wales

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° S, 20.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus murchinsoni graptolite zone, Cyffredm Shale Formation, Late/Upper Llanvirn (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• low Didymograptus murchinsoni Biozone. PJW: murchisoni zone shales here are Cyffredm Shale.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale

• fossiliferous black shales

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Kennedy. 1988. Ordovician (Llanvirn) Trilobites from SW Wales. Monograph Of The Paleontographical Society 141(576):1-55 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69768: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 06.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Cnemidopyge tenuis
Cnemidopyge tenuis Kennedy 1988 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Stapeleyella inconstans
Stapeleyella inconstans Whittard 1955 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Ogygiocarella debuchii" = Ogygiocaris
"Ogygiocarella debuchii" = Ogygiocaris trilobite
may be 1 more specimen
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Degamella "sp. B"
Degamella "sp. B" Marek 1961 trilobite