Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (58.6° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 4.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Rossodus manitouensis conodont zone, Sailmhor Formation (Durness Group), Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)
• "From a horizon estimated to be 35 m below the top of the Sailmhor Formation and possibly equivalent to parasequence SM27 of Raine (2010)."
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, tabular, dolomitic, stromatolitic, thrombolitic, calcareous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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 188583: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Susan Scholze on 08.09.2017, edited by Björn Kröger
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ellesmeroceratidae indet. Kobayashi 1934
Ellesmeroceras sp. Foerste 1921 |