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Synoptic revision of the Ordovician brachiopods of the Barr and Lower Ardmillan groups of the Girvan area, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2014

Y. Candela  and
D. A. T. Harper
Y. Candela
Affiliation:
National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, UK. Email: y.candela@nms.ac.uk
D. A. T. Harper
Affiliation:
Palaeoecosystems Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. Email: david.harper@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract

The generic assignments of some 200 Ordovician brachiopod species in the Barr and Lower Ardmillan (upper Darriwilian–lower Katian) succession, Girvan are reviewed and, where necessary, modified. This key database on the distribution and occurrence of a Laurentian-marginal brachiopod assemblage has featured in many analyses of global biogeography for the period and has confirmed the position of Girvan at relatively low latitudes. Revision of these taxonomic assignments within a modified stratigraphical framework permits closer comparisons with coeval faunas elsewhere around the palaeocontinent of Laurentia and beyond and allows the definition of a variety of brachiopod biofacies on a fault-controlled basin founded on a dismembered ophiolite.

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DarriwilianKatianLaurentiaSandbian
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , March 2014 , pp. 61 - 69
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