Shelve District, Shropshire, Arenig, Mytton Flags, Locality 3 (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 66.1° S, 15.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mytton Flags Formation, Arenig (478.6 - 466.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; micaceous siltstone and shale

• unlaminated micaceous siltstones and fine-grained crystal tuffs, with occassional laminated siltstones and shales.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Williams. 1974. Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology), Supplement 11:1-158 [m. patzkowsky/Z. Krug/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43874: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
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unclassified
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Paleoglossa myttonensis, Nocturniella sp.
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Elkaniidae
Monobolina plumbea
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Lenorthis cf. proava" = Orthambonites proava
"Lenorthis cf. proava" = Orthambonites proava Salter 1865