Hope Quarry, Minsterley, Shropshire (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° S, 16.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus magnus graptolite zone, Venusbank Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• Idwian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• no information given

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 72281: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Biernatidae
"? Caenotreta cf. aldridgei" = Opsiconidion
"? Caenotreta cf. aldridgei" = Opsiconidion
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena contermina n. sp.
Leptaena contermina n. sp. Cocks 1968
Strophomena rhomboidalis in Davidson 1871 (pi. 39, fig. 17 only)