Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 4.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 29.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Amorphognathus tvaerensis conodont zone, Ardwell Farm Formation, Sandbian (458.4 - 453.0 Ma)
• The text indicates that the fossil were recovered from a single level within the stream banks sampled.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified, silty mudstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite
Reposited in the BGS
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: M. Mohibullah, T. R. A. Vandenbroucke, M. Williams, J. D. Floyd, T. Meidla, J. A. Zalasiewicz, and D. J. Siveter. 2011. Late Ordovician (Sandbian) ostracods from the Ardwell Farm Formation, SW Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 47:57-66 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184247: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 10.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Protozoa | |
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Ostracoda | |
Ctenobolbina ventrospinosa Kraft 1962 ostracod | |
Krausella variata Kraft 1962 ostracod | |
Eoaquapulex cf. socialis Levinson 1961 ostracod | |
Hallatia cf. labiosa Ulrich 1894 ostracod | |
Baltonotella parsispinosa Kraft 1962 ostracod | |
Schmidtella transversa Harris 1957 ostracod |