Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (58.6° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 4.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sangomore Formation (Durness Group), Tremadoc (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• This locality is the type section for the Sangomore Formation.
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, peloidal, shelly/skeletal, thrombolitic carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
• Sclerite
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collected by Robert J. Raine
• Specimen is in Lapworth Museum, University of Birmingham.
Primary reference: L. G. Herringshaw and R. J. Raine. 2007. The earliest turrilepadid: a machaeridian from the Lower Ordovician of the Northwest Highlands. Scottish Journal of Geology 43:97-100 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184347: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 21.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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