Sowerbyella Assem Phase 2 Samp C3, Conglomerates, Ffairfach Group: Late/Upper Llanvirn, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Stiodermatidae
Hyalostelia fasicula
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
4 individuals
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
5 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella parva Williams 1949
12 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Harknessellidae
Horderleyella convexa
4 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula triangularis
5 individuals
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella antiqua Jones 1928
51 individuals
recombined as Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) antiqua
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Oxoplecia nantensis
4 individuals
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
1 individual
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Basilicus tyrannus (Murchison 1839)
3 individuals
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene cambriensis (Salter 1865)
2 individuals
recombined as Flexicalymene cambrensis
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
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: Hustedograptus teretiusculus
Age range of interval:461.30000 - 458.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ffairfach Formation:Ffairfach Conglomerate
Local section:Ffairfach Local bed:C3
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Ffairfach Section Sample C3
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 conglomerate
Secondary lithology: lithified sandstone
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:69598
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:A. Miller
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-27 17:12:09 Last modified:2018-04-12 16:53:22
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-27 17:12:09
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]