Crags north of Loch Lonachan: 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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Allopiloceras lonachonense
Evans 2011
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Highland |
| Coordinates: | 57.2° North, 5.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.2° North, 5.9° 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: | Ben Suardal Limestone | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: Ben Suardal Limestone Formation, precise horizon uncertain. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "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: | 188733 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
| Modifier: | B. Kröger | ||
| Created: | 2017-09-14 08:40:57 | Last modified: | 2017-09-14 08:44:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-09-14 08:40:57 |
| 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] |