Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 3.6° W: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 17.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ooid Member, Cautleyan to Cautleyan (449.2 - 445.2 Ma)

• a single piece that is "foreign to the locality"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, shelly/skeletal mudstone

Primary reference: A. Williams and A. D. Wright. 1981. The Ordovician-Silurian boundary in the Garth area of southwest Powys, Wales. Geological Journal 16:1-39 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8389: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 10.07.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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