Sowerbyella Assem Phase 1 Samp F51, Flags and Grits, Ffairfach Group: Late/Upper Llanvirn, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Inarticulata - Inarticulata
Inarticulata indet. Huxley 1869
2 individuals
invalid subgroup of Brachiopoda
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella antiqua Jones 1928
166 individuals
recombined as Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Harknessellidae
Horderleyella sp. Bancroft 1928
4 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella parva Williams 1949
19 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula triangularis
1 individual
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
2 individuals
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Basilicus tyrannus (Murchison 1839)
2 individuals
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929
6 individuals
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene cambriensis (Salter 1865)
6 individuals
recombined as Flexicalymene cambrensis
Ostracoda - Hollinocopida - Tetradellidae
Tallinnella sp. Opik 1937
2 individuals
[entered as Talinella sp.]
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Wales
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 4.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.0° South, 19.7° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Middle Ordovician
Stage:Darriwilian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 3
Key time interval:Late/Upper Llanvirn Graptolite zone: Didymograptus murchisoni
Age range of interval:461.30000 - 458.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ffairfach Formation:Ffairfach Flags and Grits
Local section:Ffairfach Local bed:F51
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Ffairfach Section Sample F51
JA: originally entered as Lower Llandeilo and resolved to the formation level, but Upper Llanvirn according to the authors and certainly resolved to the bed level
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified calcareous siltstone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,sieve
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Brachiopod faunal associations
Metadata
Database number:69583
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:A. Miller
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-27 17:00:46 Last modified:2018-05-14 21:43:37
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-27 17:00:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

162. A. Williams, M. G. Lockley, and J. M. Hurst. 1981. Benthic palaeocommunities represented in the Ffairfach Group and coeval Ordovician successions of Wales. Palaeontology 24(4):661-694 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/J. Alroy]