ammonites
Shelve District, Shropshire, Llandeilo, Meadowtown Beds, Locality 9 (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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 (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)

• originally assigned to the Llandeilo

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; calcareous siltstone and fine-grained sandstone

• laminated calcareous siltstones or fine-grained sandstones with subordinate calcarenites.

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/Z. Krug] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45060: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 30.09.2004