Benburb Blackwater Benburb (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.4° N, 6.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 21.9° S, 7.0° W (Wright 2013)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Benburb Mudstone Member (Blackwater Limestone Formation), Brigantian (335.9 - 330.3 Ma)

• 1.4 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, argillaceous mudstone and limestone

• highly fossiliferous dark grey to brown crinoidal mudstones with a 19 cm bed of hard crinoidal argillaceous limestone in the middle.

Primary reference: W. I. Mitchell and M. Mitchell. 1983. The Lower Carboniferous (Upper Visean) succession at Benburb, Northern Ireland. Reports of the Institute of Geological Sciences (82/12)1-10 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6958: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 14.04.2000, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish teeth and scales
Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Linoprotonia sp.
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
? Pustula sp., ? Echinoconchus sp.
 Productida - Productellidae
? Antiquatonia sp.
? Antiquatonia sp. Miloradovich 1945
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp.
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia becheri
Posidonia becheri Bronn 1828 oyster
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod