Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 18.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Knockgardner Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, green 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 188540: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Warburgella (Warburgella) capetos n. sp. Howells 1982 trilobite | |
"Hemiarges rolfei" = Richterarges rolfei
"Hemiarges rolfei" = Richterarges rolfei Lamont 1965 trilobite | |
Calymene frontosa Lindström 1885 trilobite | |
Podowrinella straitonensis Lamont 1965 trilobite | |
Encrinurus expansus Haswell 1865 trilobite |