Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 12.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Elton Formation, Elton (423.0 - 421.3 Ma)

• Glossia obovata community. Listed as Eltonian; Mudstone facies

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, bioturbated, argillaceous mudstone and lithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: 210 and table 17: Two samples with smallest thickness selected; 1E13 is 5 cm thick, 421 cm above base of section

Primary reference: R. Watkins. 1979. Benthic community organization in the Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 31:175-280 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75051: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 17.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)