Locality 25, Whitland-Scolton District, SW Wales: Early/Lower Llanvirn, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Ogyginus aff. porcatus
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Nileidae
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Barrandia homfrayi
Hicks 1875
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few category | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Trinucleidae
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Stapeleyella inconstans
Whittard 1955
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common category | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Dionididae
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Dionide levigena
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Ectillaenus perovalis
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few category | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Dalmanitidae
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Ormathops llanvirnensis
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common category | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pliomeridae
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Placoparia (Placoparia) cambriensis
Hicks 1875
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common category | |||||||||
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Trilobita
- Odontopleurida
- Odontopleuridae
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Selenopeltis buchi
(Barrande 1846)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| S. buchi buchi | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates: | 51.8° North, 4.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 60.5° South, 20.2° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Middle Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Llanvirn | ||
| Age range of interval: | 468.40000 - 461.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Llanfallteg | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: lower Didymograptus artus Biozone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black lithified "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified mudstone |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 69811 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | T. Schossleitner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-08 01:09:38 | Last modified: | 2007-03-08 03:09:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-08 01:09:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23364. | J. Kennedy. 1988. Ordovician (Llanvirn) Trilobites from SW Wales. Monograph Of The Paleontographical Society 141(576):1-55 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner] |