Llanfallteg Fm (Arenig portion), Whitland, UK: Arenig, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. (Dalman 1827)
original and current combination Asaphus (Ampyx)
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Dionididae
Dionide sp. Barrande 1847
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Stapeleyella sp. Whittard 1955
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Seleneceme sp. Clark 1924
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Barrandia sp. M'Coy 1849
Trilobita - Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Novakella sp. Whittard 1961
Ellipsotaphrus sp. Whittard 1952
Girvanopyge sp. Kobayashi 1960
Pricyclopyge sp. Richter and Richter 1954
Microparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Ectillaenus sp. Salter 1867
Trilobita - Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Selenopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Placoparia sp. Hawle and Corda 1847
Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Ormathops sp. Delo 1935
Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Corrugatagnostus sp. Kobayashi 1939
Segmentagnostus sp. Pek 1977
synonym of Corrugatagnostus
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Sinograptidae
Acrograptus sp.
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Glossograptus sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 5.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:66.0° South, 20.5° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician *Epoch:Late/Upper Arenig
Key time interval:Arenig
Age range of interval:478.60000 - 466.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Llanfallteg
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified "shale"
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: Soft, fissile gray shale
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3706
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-07 09:48:47 Last modified:1999-08-07 12:48:47
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

173. R. A. Fortey and R. M. Owens. 1978. Early Ordovician (Arenig) stratigraphy and faunas of the Carmarthen District, southwest Wales. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 30(3):225-294 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]