Also known as Shelve inlier

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

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Didymograptus artus graptolite zone, Hope Shale Formation, Abereiddian (468.0 - 461.1 Ma)

• " [...] Hope Shale Formation, artus Biozone, Abereiddian Stage, Llanvirn Series." (Evans & Cope, 2003).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; micaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. E. Evans and J.C.W. Cope. 2003. Systematic position of Pollicina corniculum (Eichwald, 1860) (Mollusca, Tergomya) from the Middle Ordovician of the United Kingdom. Palaeontology 46(1):139-149 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89468: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 22.05.2009

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