Wenlock Edge Area, Shropshire, SH5: Telychian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
Elimaproetus diabolicus n. sp.
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ktenoura patula n. sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Shropshire
Coordinates: 52.7° North, 2.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.9° South, 14.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
Stage:Telychian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Telychian
Age range of interval:438.50000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hughley Shales
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: BA5 - Environment taken from Cocks et al 2003.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: This reference is a taxonomic treatment of the trilobites of England and Wales. Localities at which the fossils occur are given for each species described. It is from this information that the list was put together. I therefore do not know how the taxa were collected.
Taxonomic list comments:Trilobites only
Metadata
Database number:49584
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:A. Krug
Modifier:A. Krug Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-20 06:43:44 Last modified:2005-04-20 09:43:45
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-20 06:43:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13274. N.J. Curtis and P.D. Lane. 1997. The Llandovery trilobites of England and Wales. Part 1. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 151:1-50 [M. Patzkowsky/A. Krug/M. Hopkins]