Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.2° N, 3.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 16.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: acinaces - cyphus zone, shelly facies Member, Rhuddanian (443.4 - 440.8 Ma)

• No formation name. [Upper Rhuddanian assigned based on given graptolite zone.]

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy siltstone

Collection methods: bulk,

• Two "grabs" apparently, they differentiated them by thickness and mass: A = 5 mm, 3.2 kg; B = 12 mm, 6.0 kg. Differentiated in comment field.

Primary reference: J. T. Temple. 1987. Early Llandovery brachiopods of Wales. Palaeontological Society Monographs 139(572):1-137 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3453: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.08.1999

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