Lower Allt Ddu trilobites (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.9° N, 3.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 44.8° S, 84.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Diplograptus multidens graptolite zone, Allt Ddu Formation (Lower Bala Group), Soudleyan (458.2 - 457.2 Ma)

• lower assemblage zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated, blue, silty mudstone and lithified, fine-grained siltstone

• Allt Ddu: monotonous series of dark blue silty mudstones with fine siltstones commonly disposed in small-scale cross- and ripple- lamination...greatly disturbed by burrowing organisms and bedding is poorly developed except in the coarser beds [Bassett et al 1996]

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. B. Whittington. 1968. The Ordovician trilobites of the Bala Area, Merioneth. Part IV. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 122(520):93-138 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188588: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 08.09.2017

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"isoletinid" indet.
Artiopoda
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Broeggerolithus broeggeri
Broeggerolithus broeggeri Bancroft 1929 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) limba
Flexicalymene (Reacalymene) limba Shirley 1936 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Brongniartella sp.
Brongniartella sp. Reed 1918 trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella cf. ovata
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Macrocoelia prolata" = Colaptomena expansa prolata, Leptaena ventricosa
"Macrocoelia prolata" = Colaptomena expansa prolata Williams 1963
Leptaena ventricosa Williams 1963
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella sericea" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea
"Sowerbyella sericea" = Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea Sowerby 1839
Sowerbyella sericea permixta
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Bicuspina spiriferoides
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis berwynensis
Dinorthis berwynensis Whittington 1938
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Heterorthis cf. retrorsistria
Heterorthis cf. retrorsistria McCoy 1851
[Heterorthis cf. retrosistria]
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp., Howellites striata
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Harknessellidae
Reuschella cf. horderleyensis