Where: Munster, Ireland (52.2° N, 7.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 45.3° S, 90.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tramore Limestone Formation (Duncannon Group), Llandeilo to Llandeilo (461.1 - 456.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; nodular, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, argillaceous limestone and calcareous siliciclastic
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: GSI = Geological Survey of Ireland
Primary reference: D. H. Evans. 2002. Some Additional Ordovician and Silurian Cephalopods from Ireland. In P. N. Wyse Jackson, M. A. Parkes and R. Wood (eds.), Studies in Palaeozoic palaeontology and biostratigraphy in honour of Charles Hepworth Holland. Special Papers in Paleontology 67:77-96 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89124: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 05.05.2009
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Orthoceras" indet. Breynius 1832 GSI F12782 (part), preserved within the siphuncle of the indeterminate endoceratid; "at least 20 individual phragmocones, some of which are telescoped into each other"
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Endoceratidae indet. Hyatt 1884 GSI F12900; "labelled as Orthoceras from Newton, County Waterford"; GSI F12782 (part)
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