Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 17.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Meadowtown Beds Formation, Llanvirn (468.0 - 458.4 Ma)
• originally assigned to the Llandeilo
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; calcareous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone
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 45210: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 14.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Palaeoglossa attenuata Sowerby 1839 | |