Drummock, Girvan: Rawtheyan, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Zonidiscus grayi Reed 1921
Reed 1921
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Kokenospira lingualis (Salter and Aveline 1854)
Reed 1921
Kokenospira lingualis girvanensis
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Stephanocosmia (Spiroecus) girvanensis Longstaff 1924
Longstaff 1924
recombined as Spiroecus girvanensis
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Eotomaria convexa Longstaff 1924
Longstaff 1924
recombined as Cataschisma convexa
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
? Lophospira trispiralis Donald 1906
Donald 1906
Trilobita - Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Cheirurus (Cyrtometopus) octolobatus (M'Coy 1849)
recombined as Pseudosphaerexochus octolobatus
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Scotland County:Ayrshire
Coordinates: 55.3° North, 4.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.4° South, 27.3° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Rawtheyan Graptolite zone: Paraorthograptus pacificus
Age range of interval:448.90000 - 445.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Drummock Formation:South Threave
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Taxonomic list comments:Entered by taxonomic group.
Metadata
Database number:153944
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-01-20 12:31:31 Last modified:2015-01-13 07:44:04
Access level:the public Released:2014-01-20 12:31:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

49899. F. R. C. Reed. 1906. The Lower Palaeozoic trilobites of the Girvan district, Ayrshire. Part 3. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 97-186 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

11637 J. G. Donald. 1906. Notes on the genera Omospira, Lophospira and Turritoma, with descriptions of new Proterozoic species. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 62:552-572 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
16156 J. D. Longstaff. 1924. Descriptions of Gasteropoda, chiefly in Mrs. Robert Gray's collection, from the Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Girvan. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 80(4):408-446 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
11640 F. R. C. Reed. 1921. A monograph of the British Ordovician and Silurian Bellerophontacea. The Palaeontographical Society 31:1-92 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]