Craig Head Quarry, 3 miles east of Girvan, Ayrshire: Longvillian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira subglobosa Donald 1906
Donald 1906
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Salpingostoma etheridgei Reed 1921
recombined as Grandostoma etheridgei
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Eccyliomphalus scotica M'Coy 1851
Longstaff 1924
Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Pseudobigaleaidae
Bitrigonocardia diptera (Salter 1851)
Rogalla and Amler 2006
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Scotland County:Ayrshire
Coordinates: 55.3° North, 4.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.5° South, 29.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:early Late Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
Key time interval:Longvillian Graptolite zone: Dicranograptus clingani
Age range of interval:457.50000 - 455.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ardwell Formation:Craighead Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Was Stinchar Limestone (Barr Group).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Metadata
Also known as:Craighead
Database number:63383
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Collections that are a subset of this one:164412
Created:2006-08-13 14:43:51 Last modified:2015-05-13 18:36:46
Access level:the public Released:2006-08-13 14:43:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

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]
18209 N. S. Rogalla and M. R. W. Amler. 2006. Revision der Familie Pseudobigaleaidae Hoare, Mapes & Yancey, 2002 (Mollusca; Rostroconchia). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80(2):167-208 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/J. Alroy]