Dan-lan-y-castell Quarry, Llangynog (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as locality 10, Llyn-y-Llawr

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 68.7° S, 20.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tetragraptus phyllograptoides graptolite zone, Bolahaul Member (Ogof Hen Formation), Moridunian (477.7 - 473.8 Ma)

• "Bolahaul Member, Ogof Hên Formation. Moridunian Stage, Arenig Series, phyllograptoides Biozone." (Evans, 2005)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; silty mudstone

• "The silty mudstones of this quarry represent a nearshore environment" (Cope, 2005)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: NMW = National Museums and Galleries of Wales

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 89318: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 15.05.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Dissidocerida - Polymeridae
Polymeres demetarum Murchison 1839
BGS GSM 104523 to 104531, 104533 to 104535; NMW 88.30G.36, 2001.7G.73
 Dissidocerida - Troedssonellidae
Moridunoceras castelli n. gen. n. sp.
Moridunoceras castelli n. gen. n. sp. Evans 2005
NMW 88.30G.68 (holotype), 88.30G.69 to 88.30G.83 (all are paratypes)
 Orthocerida - Baltoceratidae
Castelloceras arennigense n. sp. Evans 2005
NMW 88.30G.37 (type)
 Ellesmerocerida - Eothinoceratidae
Saloceras sericeum Salter 1865
NMW 88.30G.1 to 88.30G.14