Shelve District, Shropshire, Harnagian, Aldress Shale, Locality 1 (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)
Where: Shropshire, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 49.4° S, 16.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Aldress Shales Formation, Harnagian (457.5 - 455.8 Ma)
• Age taken from text, not from an independent source.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; black, blue shale
• brown-weathering, bluish-black shales.
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 45321: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 19.10.2004