Also known as Church Hill Quarry; Martin's Shell Quarry

Where: United Kingdom (52.4° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 23.5° S, 11.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Leintwardine Formation, Leintwardine (421.3 - 419.2 Ma)

• Monograptus leintwardinensis Zone according to Ramsbottom 1958

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, bioturbated siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by H. L. Hawkins in 1926; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• "Most of the specimens described in this paper occur as external moulds... studied by means of rubber latex casts" (Ramsbottom 1958)

•BM and GSM collections

Primary reference: W. H. C. Ramsbottom. 1958. British Upper Silurian crinoids from the Ludlovian. Palaeontology 1:106-115 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 95143: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 08.04.2010, edited by John Alroy

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