Locality 76, Abereiddi Bay, SW Wales (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.9° N, 5.2° W: paleocoordinates 60.3° S, 20.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Didymograptus artus Biozone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified 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 69850: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.03.2007, edited by Torsten Liebrecht and Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras avelinii1 Salter 1854
NMW 93.24G.11
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
 Asaphida - Asaphidae