Locality 53, Whitland-Scolton District, SW Wales (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 60.5° S, 20.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus artus graptolite zone, Llanfallteg Formation, Early/Lower Llanvirn (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• Didymograptus artus Biozone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale

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 69838: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Selenopeltis buchi Barrande 1846 trilobite
S. buchi buchi, S. buchi marcophthalma
 Trinucleida - Dionididae
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Stapeleyella inconstans Whittard 1955 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Pricyclopyge binodosa trilobite
P. binodosa binodosa
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae