South side of Bealach Mor Burn, loc. 27 of Evans (2011): Tulean - Blackhillsian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Bisonocerida
- Piloceratidae
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Cassinoceras wortheni
(Billings 1865)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Allopiloceras bealachense
Evans 2011
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Endocerida
- Proterocameroceratidae
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Proterocameroceras durinum
(Blake 1882)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Stenosiphon sp.
Flower 1956
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Clitendoceras sp.
Ulrich and Foerste 1936
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ellesmerocerida
- Protocycloceratidae
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Protocycloceras lamarki
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Baltoceratidae
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Rhabdiferoceras pertinens
(Blake 1882)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Dissidocerida
- Troedssonellidae
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Buttsoceras sp.
Ulrich and Foerste 1933
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Highland |
| Coordinates: | 58.5° North, 4.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 58.5° North, 4.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Early Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 1-2 - Ordovician 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Tulean - Blackhillsian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 480.3 - 470 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Durness | Formation: | Croisaphuill | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Dolomitic limestones near the base of the Croisaphuill Formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | dolomitic "limestone" |
| Environment: | deep subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 188714 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
| Modifier: | B. Kröger | ||
| Created: | 2017-09-14 03:03:01 | Last modified: | 2017-09-16 05:29:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-09-14 03:03:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63219. | D.H. Evans. 2011. The Lower Ordovician cephalopod faunas of the Durness Group, North-West Scotland. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 165:1-131 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger] |