Shropshire, Purple Shale (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° S, 15.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Purple Shale Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 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 72417: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Philhedra athenae n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Rhynchonellata
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis onniensis n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950
Hesperorthis cf. davidsoni de Verneuil 1845
? Schizoramma valentica n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950
Ptychopleurella sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Ptychopleurella multicostata n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950
Dolerorthis psygma Lamont and Gilbert 1945
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Linoporella punctata deVerneuil 1848
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Parmorthis visbyensis" = Resserella
"Parmorthis visbyensis" = Resserella
var. pygmaea
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
"Bilobites alticavatus n. sp." = Dicoelosia alticavata
"Bilobites alticavatus n. sp." = Dicoelosia alticavata Whittard and Barker 1950
200 m north-north-east of Hughley Bridge
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Mendacella lata Whittard and Barker 1950
Mendacella phiala n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950
Mendacella uberis Billings 1866
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
"Orbiculoidea (? Schizotreta) forbesi" = Orbiculoidea forbesa
"Orbiculoidea (? Schizotreta) forbesi" = Orbiculoidea forbesa Davidson 1848
 Lingulida - Lingulidae