ammonites
Ty-bach Cottage (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (53.3° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 59.2° S, 19.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Bod Deiniol Formation, Early/Lower Llanvirn (466.0 - 463.5 Ma)

• "early Llanvirn"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; green sandstone and conglomerate

• "shallow water surrounding an island or group of islands"
• "rock framgnets... in a greenish chloritic matrix"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• new collection from 1971

Primary reference: R. B. Neuman and D. E. B. Bates. 1978. Reassessment of Arenig and Llanvirn age (early Ordovician) brachiopods from Anglesey, north-west Wales. Palaeontology 21(3):571-613 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69097: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.2007

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