"Deeper shelf community," Tremadoc, Selenopeltis Province: Tremadoc, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Pterobranchia
- Graptoloidea
- Anisograptidae
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Dictyonema flabelliforme
(Eichwald 1840)
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unclassified
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Broeggerina sp.
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
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? Bellerophontida indet.
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
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Hyolithida
- Hyolithidae
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Hyolithes sp.
d'Eichwald 1840
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Agnostida
- Agnostidae
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Agnostus sp.
Brongniart 1822
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Nileidae
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Platypeltoides sp.
Pribyl 1949
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Asaphellus sp.
Callaway 1877
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Shumardiidae
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Shumardia sp.
Billings 1862
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Trilobita
- Olenida
- Eulomidae
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Euloma sp.
Angelin 1854
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Wales |
| Coordinates: | 52.9° North, 4.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 73.0° South, 19.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian-Ordovician | ||
| *Period: | Ordovician | *Epoch: | Tremadoc |
| Key time interval: | Tremadoc | ||
| Age range of interval: | 485 - 477.7 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: "Selenopeltis Province (N. Amer. is Batyurid Province)" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: no formation name given. "outer shelf, (~BA5) well-oxygenated, 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. p58-59, fig.3" | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 280 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Sepkoski | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-03-21 17:50:26 | Last modified: | 2017-05-19 13:52:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-03-21 17:50:26 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 6660 | C. E. Calef and N. J. Hancock. 1974. Wenlock and Ludlow marine communities in Wales and the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 17(4):779-810 [M. Foote/M. Foote/J. Ju] |