Southeast end of railway cutting at Sholeshook Farm (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Loc. 3

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 18.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashgill Shelly Zone 3 brachiopod zone, Sholeshook Formation, Cautleyan (449.2 - 448.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 185113: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Trematidae
"Crania turnbulli n. sp." = Schizocrania turnbulli
"Crania turnbulli n. sp." = Schizocrania turnbulli Reed 1905
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Gunnarella mcdermotti n. sp. Cocks 2014