Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (58.6° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 4.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: M. dianae conodont zone, Sangomore Formation (Durness Group), Stairsian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)
• 48 m above the base of the Sangomore Formation
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, stromatolitic, shelly/skeletal, thrombolitic carbonate and wackestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• Sclerite
Preservation: original aragonite
Primary reference: D.H. Evans. 2011. The Lower Ordovician cephalopod faunas of the Durness Group, North-West Scotland. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London 165:1-131 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188685: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 13.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Dyscritoceras sp. Ulrich and Foerste 1936 | |
Ectocycloceras levisense Ulrich et al. 1944 |