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 | |
Philhedra athenae n. sp.
Philhedra athenae n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hesperorthis onniensis n. sp., Hesperorthis cf. davidsoni, ? Schizoramma valentica n. sp., Ptychopleurella sp., Ptychopleurella multicostata n. sp., Dolerorthis psygma
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 | |
Linoporella punctata deVerneuil 1848 | |
"Parmorthis visbyensis" = Resserella
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"Bilobites alticavatus n. sp." = Dicoelosia alticavata
"Bilobites alticavatus n. sp." = Dicoelosia alticavata Whittard and Barker 1950 200 m north-north-east of Hughley Bridge
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Mendacella challinori, Mendacella crassiformis, Mendacella lata, Mendacella phiala n. sp., Mendacella uberis
Mendacella lata Whittard and Barker 1950
Mendacella phiala n. sp. Whittard and Barker 1950
Mendacella uberis Billings 1866 | |
Lingulata | |
"Orbiculoidea (? Schizotreta) forbesi" = Orbiculoidea forbesa
"Orbiculoidea (? Schizotreta) forbesi" = Orbiculoidea forbesa Davidson 1848 | |