Also known as type locality of Orthoceras (Endoceras) festinans Blake; Shelve Inlier

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.4° S, 18.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Weston Flags Formation, Abereiddian (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• see comments on geography

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the BMNH

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 89412: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 18.05.2009

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