Also known as Was: Duncannon Group, Ballygarvan Bridge, Ireland
Where: Lenister, Ireland (53.5° N, 7.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.3° S, 31.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dicranograptus caudatus graptolite zone, Upper Member (Campile Formation), Longvillian (457.2 - 455.0 Ma)
• PJW: Was "Middle" member, but that is Soudleyan & Diplograptus foliaceus zone.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; siltstone
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 55703: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 03.11.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinosphaerites sp. Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Nicolella cf. actoniae de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Platystrophia sp. King 1850 | |
? Salopia sp. Williams 1955 | |
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingulella ovata M'Coy 1846 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Trilobita | |
Ampyx austinii trilobite | |
Tretaspis aff. ceryx trilobite | |
"Autoloxolichas laxatus" = Allolichas laxatus
"Autoloxolichas laxatus" = Allolichas laxatus McCoy 1846 trilobite | |
Calyptaulax sp. n. sp.
Calyptaulax sp. n. sp. Cooper 1930 trilobite | |
Cybelinae indet. Holliday 1942 trilobite
Deacybele arenosa McCoy 1846 trilobite
"Atractopyge aff. dentata" = Cybellela dentata Esmark 1833 trilobite |