Lane exposure in Mylett Road, 1.3 km east of Llanddowror (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Loc. 8

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 18.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ashgill Shelly Zone 4 brachiopod zone, Sholeshook Formation, Cautleyan (449.2 - 448.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous limestone

• The deposits of the Keisley Limestone generally are interpreted to represent a carbonate mud mound.
• "The formation is typically an argillaceous-calcareous or arenaceous-calcareous rock (often not a true limestone), easily weathered to rottenstone and characterised by a particularly rich and varied trilobite fauna with abundant cystoids and brachiopods also." (Price, 1973, Geol. J. 8(2)).

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 185118: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.04.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis splendens
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena (Leptaena) semiovalis