Malvern Hills, Herefordshire (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.1° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° S, 14.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monoclimacis griestoniensis graptolite zone, Wych Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• C5 brachiopod zone. Near the boundary of the celloni and amorphognathoides conodont zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. R. M. Cocks. 1979. New acrotretacean brachiopods from the Palaeozoic of Britain and Austria. Palaeontology 22(1):93-100 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72278: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Biernatidae
"Caenotreta aldridgei n. gen. n. sp." = Opsiconidion
"Caenotreta aldridgei n. gen. n. sp." = Opsiconidion
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena ziegleri n. sp. Cocks 1968