Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° S, 15.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pentamerus Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)
• Upper Llandovery
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. F. Whittard and G. H. Barker. 1950. The Upper Valentian brachiopod fauna of Shropshire, part 1: Inarticulata: Articulata, Protremata, Orthoidea. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12th Series 3(31):553-590 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72416: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.06.2007
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Taxonomic list
Craniata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Hesperorthis cf. onniensis Whittard and Barker 1950
Hesperorthis cf. davidsoni de Verneuil 1845 | |
Mendacella challinori, Mendacella crassiformis, Mendacella lata n. sp., Mendacella uberis, Rhipidomella polygramma
Mendacella lata n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950
Mendacella uberis Billings 1866 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula crumena Phillips 1848 |