Housing estate 300 m west of A 487 (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Loc. 17

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 46.7° S, 18.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashgill Shelly Zone 7 brachiopod zone, Slade Member (Slade and Redhill Mudstone Formation), Rawtheyan (448.8 - 445.2 Ma)

• Near the top of the formation & member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: NMW = National Museum of Wales

Primary reference: L. R. M. Cocks. 2014. The Late Ordovician brachiopods of southern Pembrokeshire and adjacent south-western Wales. Special Papers in Palaeontology 91:1-89 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185103: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Catazyga hicksi Reed 1905
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella jonesi Davidson 1883
 Orthida - Harknessellidae
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Neoplatystrophia deani n. sp. Cocks 2014
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Dolerorthis intercostata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Eopholidostrophiidae