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)
• " [...] uppermost part of the Hope Shale Formation." (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 89469: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 22.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tergomya | |
Pollicina corniculum d'Eichwald 1860 BMNH C.79077; previously identified as Cyrtoceras multicameratum
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