Where: Leinster, Ireland (53.2° N, 6.9° W: paleocoordinates 51.5° S, 21.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Climacograptus wilsoni graptolite zone, Grange Cottage Member (Grange Allen Formation), Soudleyan (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• Usually given as D. foliaceus, but at the top of that zone, which is the wilsoni subzone. Lower Caradoc

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; tuffaceous, argillaceous siltstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. A. Parkes. 1994. The brachiopods of the Duncannon Group (Middle-Upper Ordovician) of southeast Ireland. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology) 50(2):105-174 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55671: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 02.11.2005

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