Olenid community, Olenus zone, Britain: Maentwrogian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Agnostida
- Agnostidae
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Lotagnostus sp.
Whitehouse 1936
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Trilobita
- Olenida
- Olenidae
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Ctenopyge sp.
Linnarsson 1880
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Olenus sp.
Dalman 1827
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Peltura sp.
Agassiz 1846
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 52.6° North, 1.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 81.9° South, 27.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Furongian |
| Stage: | Paibian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 5 | *Epoch: | Upper |
| Key time interval: | Maentwrogian | Trilobite zone: | Olenus |
| Age range of interval: | 497 - 493.1 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: no formation name given. Olenus zone is Maentwrogian. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: no lithology given. "basinal, low oxygen (BA6), geosynclinal" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:"McKerrow, 1978, pp.60-61, fig.4" [trilobites only] | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 238 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Sepkoski | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1998-11-20 10:07:18 | Last modified: | 2024-07-17 09:52:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-11-20 10:07:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60994. | W. S. McKerrow. 1979. Ordovician and Silurian changes in sea level. Journal of the Geological Society 136:137-144 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/P. Wagner] |