Slope above shore of Loch Slappin, Isle of Skye (Ordovician to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.2° N, 6.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 5.0° N, 72.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ben Suardal Limestone Formation (Durness Group), Tulean to Tulean (481.7 - 471.3 Ma)

• Ben Suardal Limestone Formation, precise horizon uncertain.

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 188742: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 14.09.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae