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
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Lophospira subglobosa
Donald 1906
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Donald 1906 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bucaniidae
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Salpingostoma etheridgei
Reed 1921
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recombined as Grandostoma etheridgei | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Ophiletidae
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Eccyliomphalus scotica
M'Coy 1851
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Longstaff 1924 | ||||||
Rostroconchia
- Conocardiida
- Pseudobigaleaidae
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Bitrigonocardia diptera
(Salter 1851)
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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: | |||
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] |