H1: Hirnantian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae
Hemiarges extremus n. sp. Owen 1986
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Achatella cf. truncatocaudata (Portlock 1843)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene scotica Lamont 1949
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Scotland
Coordinates: 55.8° North, 4.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.3° South, 24.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Hirnantian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Hirnantian
Age range of interval:445.20000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:High Mains
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:181875
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-10-06 14:18:18 Last modified:2016-10-06 14:18:18
Access level:the public Released:2016-10-06 14:18:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
60491. A. W. Owen. 1986. The uppermost Ordovician (Hirnantian) trilobites of Girvan, SW Scotland with a review of coeval trilobite faunas. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 77:231-239 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]