Bay Ogof Hen 105 ft.: Moridunian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Neseuretus ramseyensis Hicks 1873
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Wales County:Ramsey Island
Coordinates: 51.9° North, 5.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.1° South, 94.2° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Early Ordovician
Stage: Floian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 2
Key time interval: Moridunian
Age range of interval: 477.7 - 474.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ogof Hen Member:Abercastle Beds
Local section:Ogof Hen Local bed:105 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: JA: originally entered as Arenig, but the Ogof Hen Formation is Moridunian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous lithified silty mudstone
Lithology description: Poorly bedded cleaved mudstones
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: Cleaved micaceous silty mudstones with shelly layers
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Systematics of trilobites, brachiopods, and bivalves
Metadata
Database number:166754
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-02-25 11:21:55 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-25 11:21:55
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
174. D. E. B. Bates. 1969. Some early Arenig brachiopods and trilobites from Wales. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 18(1):1-28 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Ju]