Shropshire, Pentamerus Beds (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Hesperorthis cf. onniensis Whittard and Barker 1950
Hesperorthis cf. davidsoni de Verneuil 1845
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Mendacella lata n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950
Mendacella uberis Billings 1866
Rhipidomella polygramma
var. pentlandica
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae