Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° S, 23.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus sedgwickii graptolite zone, Wood Burn Grits Formation, Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone
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 188538: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Acernaspis "sp. A" Campbell 1967 trilobite
Acernaspis woodburnensis Clarkson et al. 1977 trilobite | |
Proromma sp. Lane 1971 trilobite
Youngia trispinosa trilobite | |
Encrinurus stateratus n. sp. Howells 1982 trilobite
Encrinurus mullochensis Reed 1931 trilobite
Encrinurus cf. squarrosus Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Calymene hadyardensis Lamont 1949 trilobite | |
? Bumastus vulsus n. sp., Stenopareia catathema n. sp.
? Bumastus vulsus n. sp. Howells 1982 trilobite
Stenopareia catathema n. sp. Howells 1982 trilobite | |
Kosovopeltis andersoni Etheridge and Nicholson 1879 trilobite | |
"Leonaspis acarescola n. sp." = Exallaspis acarescola, "Leonaspis cf. angelini" = Kettneraspis angelini
"Leonaspis acarescola n. sp." = Exallaspis acarescola Howells 1982 trilobite
"Leonaspis cf. angelini" = Kettneraspis angelini Prantl and Pribyl 1949 trilobite | |
Cyphoproetus pugionis n. sp. Howells 1982 trilobite
? Warburgella (Warburgella) sp. Reed 1931 trilobite |