SB03: Rhuddanian - Aeronian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Triplesiidae
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Triplesia ? woodlandensis
Reed 1917
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Sowerbyellidae
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Eoplectodonta duplicata
(de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
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11 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata | ||||||||||
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Anisopleurella gracilis
(Jones 1928)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Kozlowskites gracilis | ||||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Leptestiidae
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Leangella scissa
(Davidson 1871)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Furcitellidae
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Katastrophomena woodlandensis
(Reed 1917)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| ssp. scotica | ||||||||||
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= Katastrophomena scotica
Bancroft 1949
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Wagner 2020 | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Leptaena haverfordensis
Bancroft 1949
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Atrypinidae
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Plectatrypa tripartita
(de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Eospirigerina tripartita | ||||||||||
| ssp. tripartita | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Lissatrypidae
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Meifodia prima
(Williams 1951)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ssp. indet. | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Protorthida
- Skenidiidae
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Skenidioides ? woodlandiense
(Davidson 1882)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Skenidioides woodlandiensis | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Rhipidomellidae
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Mendacella mullockiensis
(Davidson 1869)
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15 specimens | |||||||||
| "llandoveriana morph" | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Ravozetina rava
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Hesperorthidae
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Dolerorthis gwalia
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Dolerorthis sowerbyiana
(Davidson 1869)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Wales | County: | Powys |
| Coordinates: | 52.8° North, 3.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.9° South, 16.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Silurian | Epoch: | Llandovery |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Silurian 1 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Silurian | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Llandovery - Middle Llandovery |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Rhuddanian - Late/Upper Aeronian | ||
| Key time interval: | Rhuddanian - Aeronian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 443.80000 - 438.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Unless a conodont zone was explicitly stated, a Late Rhudd - Late Aeron age was entered because of the statement these beds are all "pre-sedgwickii Zone." | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:"Brachiopods... form the overwhelming preponderance of early Llandovery shelly faunas in Wales." | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 4935 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Wagner | Enterer: | M. Sommers, P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-26 16:44:00 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 196. | J. T. Temple. 1987. Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales. Palaeontological Society Monographs 139(572):1-137 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 65064 | P. Wagner. 2020. Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |