Infilled quarry in Lady Burn (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Bed A of Harper (1982)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.3° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.7° S, 26.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Farden Member (South Threave Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• Drummock Subgroup

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• Deeper-water downslope setting in a steep, narrow shelf/slope preserving an allochthonous faunal assemblage.
• Not given in text but these are mudstones and siltstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying,

• A temporary exposure that is now infilled.

Primary reference: S. K. Donovan and N. D. L. Clark. 2015. A collection of pelmatozoans (Echinodermata) from the Lady Burn Starfish Beds (Upper Ordovician, Katian), SW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 51:125-130 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181069: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 17.08.2016, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
Protaxocrinus girvanensis
Protaxocrinus girvanensis Sea lily
GLAHM 153605/1, 2
 Flexibilia - Cupulocrinidae
Cupulocrinus drummuckensis
Cupulocrinus drummuckensis Sea lily
GLAHM 153607/2
 Disparida -
Eocicerocrinus sevastopuloi
Eocicerocrinus sevastopuloi Sea lily
GLAHM 152606/1,2
 Diplobathrida - Dimerocrinitidae
Eodimerocrinites littlewoodi n. gen. n. sp.
Eodimerocrinites littlewoodi n. gen. n. sp. Donovan and Gilmour 2003 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Patelliocrinidae
Macrostylocrinus cirrifer
Macrostylocrinus cirrifer Sea lily
GLAHM 152602/1,2
Rhombifera
 Rhombifera -
Rhombifera sp.
Rhombifera sp. Zittel 1879
GLAHM 152607/2