Opsimasaphus-Nankinolithus trilobite association, North Wales, UK: Rawtheyan, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Agnostida
- Sphaeragnostidae
|
||||||||||
|
Sphaeragnostus sp.
Cooper and Kindle 1936
|
||||||||||
|
Agnostida
- Metagnostidae
|
||||||||||
|
Arthrorhachis sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
|
||||||||||
|
? Ectillaenus sp.
Salter 1867
|
||||||||||
| originally entered as "Ectillaenus? sp." | ||||||||||
|
Parillaenus sp.
Jaanusson 1954
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Panderiidae
|
||||||||||
|
Panderia sp.
Volborth 1863
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Styginidae
|
||||||||||
|
Phillipsinella sp.
Novak 1885
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Dionididae
|
||||||||||
|
Dionide sp.
Barrande 1847
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
|
||||||||||
|
Raphiophorus sp.
Angelin 1854
|
||||||||||
|
Lonchodomas sp.
Angelin 1854
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Trinucleidae
|
||||||||||
|
Novaspis sp.
Whittington 1941
|
||||||||||
|
Nankinolithus sp.
Lu 1957
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
|
||||||||||
|
Opsimasaphus sp.
Kielan 1960
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Cyclopygidae
|
||||||||||
|
Cyclopyge sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
|
||||||||||
|
? Microparia sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
|
||||||||||
| originally entered as "Microparia? sp." | ||||||||||
|
Symphysops sp.
Raymond 1925
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Odontopleurida
- Odontopleuridae
|
||||||||||
|
Whittingtonia sp.
Prantl and Pribyl 1949
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Lichida
- Lichidae
|
||||||||||
|
Platylichas sp.
(Gürich 1901)
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Dalmanitidae
|
||||||||||
|
Duftonia sp.
Dean 1959
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pterygometopidae
|
||||||||||
|
Liocnemis sp.
Kielan 1960
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
|
||||||||||
|
Gravicalymene sp.
Shirley 1936
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
|
||||||||||
|
Ceraurinella sp.
Cooper 1953
|
||||||||||
|
Pseudosphaerexochus sp.
(Schmidt 1881)
|
||||||||||
|
Sphaerocoryphe sp.
Angelin 1854
|
||||||||||
|
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Encrinuridae
|
||||||||||
|
Encrinuroides sp.
Reed 1931
|
||||||||||
|
Dindymene sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
|
||||||||||
|
Staurocephalus sp.
Barrande 1846
|
||||||||||
|
Oedicybele sp.
Whittington 1938
|
||||||||||
|
Cybeloides sp.
Slocum 1913
|
||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 53.0° North, 3.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.7° South, 16.9° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late Ordovician |
| Stage: | Katian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 5 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Ordovician | *Epoch: | Middle Ashgill |
| *International age/stage: | Rawtheyan | *Local age/stage: | Rawtheyan |
| Key time interval: | Rawtheyan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 448.9 - 445.2 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
| Environment: | submarine fan |
| Geology comments: Mudstone | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Trilobite paleoecology | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3676 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | P. Novack-Gottshall | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-08-06 12:28:50 | Last modified: | 1999-08-06 15:28:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 172. | D. Price and P. M. Magor. 1984. The ecological significance of variation in the genesis composition of Rawtheyan (Late Ordovician) trilobite faunas from North Wales, U.K. U. K. Geological Journal 19:187-200 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall] |