Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 3.4° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 20.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cyrtograptus lapworthi - Cyrtograptus insectus graptolite zone, Wether Law Linn Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
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 188545: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 06.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Proetus (Lacunoporaspis) sp." = Lacunoporaspis, Cyphoproetus comitilis, "Cyphoproetus cf. depressus" = Cyphoproetus depressa
"Proetus (Lacunoporaspis) sp." = Lacunoporaspis Elkin 1966 trilobite
Cyphoproetus comitilis trilobite
"Cyphoproetus cf. depressus" = Cyphoproetus depressa Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Calymene frontosa Lindström 1885 trilobite | |
Acernaspis sufferta Lamont 1947 trilobite | |
Encrinurus pagei trilobite
Encrinurus expansus Haswell 1865 trilobite | |
Cheirurinae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Youngia douglasi trilobite | |
Scotoharpes domina Lamont 1948 trilobite | |
"Hemiarges rolfei" = Richterarges rolfei
"Hemiarges rolfei" = Richterarges rolfei Lamont 1965 trilobite | |
Anacaenaspis callipareos Thomson 1857 trilobite
Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite |