Pont y Fenni Quarry, Fennian (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.6° W: paleocoordinates 63.9° S, 20.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pont y Fenni Formation, Fennian (470.7 - 468.0 Ma)

• belonging to the Bergamia rushtoni Biozone of the Fennian Stage of the upper part of the Arening Series

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; mudstone and shale

• water with a minimum depth of 200 m
• dark blue-black pyritic mudstones and shales

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 87604: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 20.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Hydrozoa
 Hydroida -
Pontifennia gracilis n. gen. n. sp.
Pontifennia gracilis n. gen. n. sp. Cope 2005
Anthozoa
 Gorgonacea - Gorgoniidae
Pennalina crossi n. gen. n. sp.
Pennalina crossi n. gen. n. sp. Cope 2005 gorgonian