Loc. 08b. Prendergast Place: Rawtheyan, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Stenopareia bowmanni
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Flexicalymene cavei
Price 1974
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Wales | County: | Haverfordwest |
Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 5.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.7° South, 18.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
Key time interval: | Rawtheyan | Brachiopod zone: | Ashgill Shelly Zone 5 |
Age range of interval: | 448.90000 - 445.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Sholeshook | ||||
Regional section: | Formation | Regional bed: | 0-2 m | ||
Regional order: | top to bottom | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Uppermost bed of the Sholeshook. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal argillaceous,cherty/siliceous "limestone" |
Lithology description: "The formation is typically an argillaceous-calcareous or arenaceous-calcareous rock (often not a true limestone), easily weathered to rottenstone and characterised by a particularly rich and varied trilobite fauna with abundant cystoids and brachiopods also." (Price, 1973, Geol. J. 8(2)). | |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | cast |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: NMW = National Museum of Wales |
Metadata
Database number: | 192324 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2018-03-22 20:44:14 | Last modified: | 2018-03-23 13:02:50 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-03-22 20:44:14 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
65077. | D. Price. 1974. Trilobites from the Sholeshook Limestone (Ashgill) of South Wales. Palaeontology 17(4):841-868 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |