Craighead Quarry: Caradoc, United Kingdom
collected by R. P. Tripp

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Isotelus sp. Dekay 1824
Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae
Amphilichas cf. hibernicus
Amphilichas sp. Raymond 1905
Amphilichas declivis n. sp. Tripp 1954
Amphilichas planus n. sp. Tripp 1954
Platylichas sp. (Gürich 1901)
Hemiarges angustifrons n. sp. Tripp 1954
Hemiarges antelucanus n. sp. Tripp 1954
Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
? Proetidae indet. Salter 1864
? Cyphoproetus facetus n. sp. Tripp 1954
Trilobita - Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Otarion beggi n. sp. Tripp 1954
recombined as Harpidella beggi
Otarion isoplates n. sp. Tripp 1954
recombined as Harpidella isoplates
Trilobita - Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833
Trilobita - Harpetida - Harpetidae
Hibbertia trippi (Whittington 1950)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Styginidae
Stygina sp. Salter 1853
Eobronteus sp. Reed 1928
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus convergens
Illaenus cf. transmotus
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Achatella consobrina n. sp. Tripp 1954
recombined as Achatella (Achatella) consobrina
Calliops brongniarti (Portlock 1843)
recombined as Calyptaulax brongniartii
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus praecursor n. sp. Tripp 1954
recombined as Celtencrinurus praecursor
Atractopyge killochanensis n. sp. Tripp 1954
Cybeloides spinifera n. sp. Tripp 1954
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
? Nieszkowskia sp. Schmidt 1881
Ceraurinus craigensis n. sp. Tripp 1954
recombined as Xylabion craigensis
Sphaerocoryphe psiles Tripp 1954
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene shirleyi n. sp. Tripp 1954
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
? Diacanthaspis biaculeatus n. sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Scotland County:Ayrshire
Coordinates: 55.3° North, 4.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.8° South, 28.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4-5
Key time interval:Caradoc
Age range of interval:458.40000 - 449.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Balclatchie Formation:Craighead Member:Kiln Mudstone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:R. P. Tripp
Collection method comments: Collection in Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University
Metadata
Database number:188938
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-09-21 15:50:05 Last modified:2022-08-11 14:04:42
Access level:the public Released:2017-09-21 15:50:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
63433. R. P. Tripp. 1954. Caradocian trilobites from the mudstones at Craighead Quarry, near Girvan, Ayrshire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 62(3):655-693 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]

Secondary references:

71714 R. M. Owens. 1973. British Orodvician and Silurian Proetidae (Trilobita). Palaeontographical Society Monograph 127(535):1-98 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]