Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 3.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 25.8° S, 60.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Monoclimacis griestoniensis graptolite zone, Purple Shale Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• Pterospathodus amorphognathoides conodont zone. Ebbestad & Guttierez-Marco report that this is from the Monoclimacis griestonensis graptolite zone. (I had Cyrtograptus centrifugus at first.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B.L. Pitcher. 1939. The Upper Valentian gastropod fauna of Shropshire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11(4):82-132 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56394: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail PJW: was Euomphalopterus n. sp. apedalensis, but that seems to be a mistake.
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Ulrichospira similis Donald 1905 snail | |
Liospira cornovica n. sp.
Liospira cornovica n. sp. Pitcher 1939 snail | |
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"Lophospira trilineata n. sp." = Loxoplocus sedgwicki
"Lophospira trilineata n. sp." = Loxoplocus sedgwicki Donald 1906 snail | |
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Hormotoma grayiana Donald 1899 snail | |
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Pterotheca avirostris Huxley and Etheridge 1865 snail | |
"Bucaniopsis carinatus" = Ptychosphaera carinata
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"Plectonotus boucoti" = Plectonotoides boucoti2
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| Strophomenata | |
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Leptaena contermina1 Cocks 1968 | |