Road cut at A48 near Pensarn (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as locality 13

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 68.7° S, 20.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-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), refers to the Dan-lan-y-castell quarry, about 6 km WSW (PBDB coll. no. 89318).

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 89322: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 16.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Eothinoceratidae
Saloceras sericeum
Saloceras sericeum Salter 1865
NMW 2001.7G.3