Locality 58, Whitland-Scolton District (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Locality 58, Whitland-Scolton District, SW Wales

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 60.5° S, 20.5° 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 and lithified mudstone

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 69843: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.03.2007, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus mendax Vanek 1965 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Barrandia homfrayi Hicks 1875 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Cnemidopyge tenuis Kennedy 1988 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Stapeleyella inconstans Whittard 1955 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Pollicinidae
Pollicina corniculum d'Eichwald 1860
SM A44474