Pont ar Ffinnant, Whitlandian (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 68.7° S, 19.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gymnostomix gibbsii trilobite zone, Afon Ffinnant Formation, Whitlandian (473.8 - 470.7 Ma)

• Afon Ffinnant Fm. belongs to the Gymnostomix gibbsii Biozone of Mid-Arenig

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

• moderately deep water into which gravity-flow deposits were fed
• shales and turbidites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. C. W. Cope. 2005. Octocorallian and hydroid fossils from the lower Ordovician of Wales. Palaeontology 48(2):433-445 [W. Kiessling/M. Nimke/M. Nimke]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87603: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 20.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Gorgonacea -
Petilavenula surculosa n. sp.
Petilavenula surculosa n. sp. Cope 2005 gorgonian