Balnakeil Bay, Durness, UK (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (58.5° N, 4.9° W: paleocoordinates 58.5° N, 4.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Lower Member (Croisaphuill Fm. Formation), Floian (477.7 - 470.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: burrowed, dolomitic limestone and shelly/skeletal chert

• an aggrading sequence of thickly bedded, burrowmottled,dolomitic limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. J. Raine and M. P. Smith. 2012. Sequence Stratigraphy of the Scottish Laurentian Margin and Recognition of the Sauk Megasequence. In J. R. Derby,R. D. Fritz, S. A. Longacre, W. A. Morgan, and C. A. Sternbach (eds.), The Great American Carbonate Bank: The Geology and Economic Resources of the Cambrian-Ordovician Sauk Megasequence of Laurentia 575-596 [W. Kiessling/Q. Li]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154964: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Qijian Li on 25.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Toxotodus carlae
Radiocyatha
  - Soanitidae
Calathium spp.
Calathium spp. Billings 1865
Some of the large cherts still preserve the remains of Calathium spp.
Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
Oneotodus costatus
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Scolopodus emarginatus, Eucharodus toomeyi
 Prioniodontida -
Oepikodus communis
 Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Tropodus comptus
 Panderodontida -
Cristodus loxoides