Minuntion, Girvan: Aurelucian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites maccallumi Reed 1921
Reed 1921
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Salpingostoma buccinoideum Reed 1921
Reed 1921
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurea sedgwicki Longstaff 1924
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Liospira disciformis Longstaff 1924
Lesueurilla scotica Longstaff 1924
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira excavata Donald 1906
Donald 1906
Ectomaria girvanensis n. sp. Donald 1899
Donald 1899
Ectomaria exigua n. sp. Donald 1899
Donald 1899
Tergomya - Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites craigensis Reed 1921
Reed 1921
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Scotland County:Ayrshire
Coordinates: 55.2° North, 4.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.2° South, 30.6° West
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Sandbian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4
Key time interval: Aurelucian Graptolite zone:  Nemagraptus gracilis
Age range of interval: 458.4 - 456.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Stinchar
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Amorphognathus inaequalis conodont zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Secondary lithology:nodular "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Mudstones with nodular limestones.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:171721
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-17 10:13:23 Last modified:2015-07-17 10:13:23
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-17 10:13:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16156. J. D. Longstaff. 1924. Descriptions of Gasteropoda, chiefly in Mrs. Robert Gray's collection, from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Girvan. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 80(4):408-446 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

15867 J. G. Donald. 1899. Remarks on the genera Ectomaria, Koken, and Hormotoma, Salter, with descriptions of British species. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 60(3):251-272 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
11637 J. G. Donald. 1906. Notes on the genera Omospira, Lophospira and Turritoma, with descriptions of new Proterozoic species. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 62:552-572 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
11640 F. R. C. Reed. 1921. A monograph of the British Ordovician and Silurian Bellerophontacea. The Palaeontographical Society 31:1-92 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]