Also known as locality 27; Priest Weston
Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.4° S, 18.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Didymograptus murchisoni graptolite zone, Weston Flags Formation, Abereiddian (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)
• "Weston Member, Middleton Formation, Upper Llanvirn Series, Didymograptus murchisoni Biozone [...] " (Evans, 1992). These beds are now named the Weston Flags Fm. and are of Abereiddian age, according to the British Gelological Survey Lexicon of Named Rock Units (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=WSN) and Evans (2005).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; bioturbated siltstone and fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with calcite
Collected by D. H. Evans
• NMW = National Museum of Wales
•"The sporadic occurence of fossils at Priestweston Quarry necessitated several visits to the site."
Primary reference: D. H. Evans. 2005. The Lower and Middle Ordovician cephalopod faunas of England and Wales. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 623:1-81 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89312: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 15.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Sacerdosoceras promus n. gen. n. sp.
Sacerdosoceras promus n. gen. n. sp. Evans 2005 NMW 88.30G.201a-e (holotype), 88.30G.202 to 88.30G.205 (paratypes)
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? Endocerida indet. Hyatt in Zittel 1900 NMW 88.30G.67, referred to as "Endoceratid? family, genus and species indet A" in the reference
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