Sericoidea Association, Bala, Wales, UK: Soudleyan - Marshbrookian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Acastidae
Kloucekia sp. Delo 1935
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Broeggerolithus sp. Lamont 1935
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida
Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808
    = Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851
Wagner 2023
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Sericoidea sp. Lindström 1953
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
? Howellites sp. (Bancroft 1945)
originally entered as "Howellites? sp."
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Harknessellidae
Reuschella sp. Bancroft 1928
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Cyclospiridae
Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Wales
Coordinates: 53.0° North, 4.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.0° South, 18.4° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Sandbian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Epoch:Middle Caradoc
*International age/stage:Soudleyan - Marshbrookian *Local age/stage:Soudleyan - Marshbrookian
Key time interval: Soudleyan - Marshbrookian
Age range of interval: 458.4 - 454.2 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nod Glas Member:Dyfi Mudstone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pyritic lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: Dark graptolitic and pyritic mudstones with occasional limestone nodules
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3373
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Wagner Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall, P. Wagner
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-31 08:04:41 Last modified:2018-11-26 16:46:03
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-31 08:04:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

165. M. G. Lockley. 1980. The Caradoc faunal associations of the area between Bala and Dines, North Wales. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 33(3):165-235 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]