Afon Seiont section, Fennian (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (53.2° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 62.7° S, 18.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nant Ffrancon Group, Fennian (470.7 - 468.0 Ma)

• lowest part of Nant Ffrancon Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; siltstone

• moderately deep water
• graptolitic siltstone

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 87605: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 20.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Gorgonacea - Gorgoniidae
Pennalina "sp. A" Cope 2005 gorgonian