Also known as Kirk Hill

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 12.5° S, 78.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cystograptus vesiculosus graptolite zone, Mulloch Hill Formation, Rhuddanian (443.1 - 440.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Elizabeth Gray in ~1850-1920; reposited in the BMNH, OUM, SM

• Collections also in Hunterian Museum (Glasgow University), Birmingham University, Grant Institute of Geology (Edinburgh University), Institute of Geological Sciences (Edinburgh), Palaeontologisk Museum (Oslo), National Museum of Wales, Royal Scottish Museum

Primary reference: Y. Howells. 1982. Scottish Silurian trilobites. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 135(561):1-70 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188530: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017

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