Pant-y-Hedyn Drive, north end, Llangynog (Ordovician to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as locality 8

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 68.7° S, 20.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus varicosus graptolite zone, Blaencediw Formation, Moridunian to Moridunian (477.7 - 470.7 Ma)

• "Blaencediw Formation. Top of Moridunian Stage or base of Whitlandian Stage, Arenig Series, varicosus Biozone." (Evans, 2005)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained sandstone

• The Blaencediw Fm. generally is considered to have been deposited in a shallow nearshore setting.
• "Both specimens are preserved in a fine-grained sandstone." (Evans, 2005)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 89407: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 18.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Eothinoceratidae
? Saloceras sp.
? Saloceras sp. Evans 2005
NMW 88.30G.15, 88.30G.16 (the latter specimen is a fragment, possibly from the individual represented by the former specimen)