Benburb Blackwater Benburb: Brigantian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Chonetoidea indet.
Jones 1928
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= Chonetoidea indet.
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Vertebrata indet.
Lamarck 1801
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Schizophoriidae
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Schizophoria sp.
King 1850
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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? Antiquatonia sp.
Miloradovich 1945
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Monticuliferidae
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Linoprotonia sp.
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Echinoconchidae
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? Pustula sp.
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? Echinoconchus sp.
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Lingulidae
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Lingula sp.
Bruguiére 1797
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Posidoniidae
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Posidonia becheri
Bronn 1828
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Ostracoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Northern Ireland |
| Coordinates: | 54.4° North, 6.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.7° South, 0.7° East | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Visean |
| *International age/stage: | Brigantian | ||
| Key time interval: | Brigantian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 336.30000 - 330.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Blackwater Limestone | Member: | Benburb Mudstone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 1.4 m thick. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,brown,gray lithified argillaceous mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: highly fossiliferous dark grey to brown crinoidal mudstones with a 19 cm bed of hard crinoidal argillaceous limestone in the middle. | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 6958 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Sommers, M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-04-14 14:44:56 | Last modified: | 2003-07-10 13:55:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-04-14 14:44:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 436. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 18078 | A. Williams, S. J. Carlson, C. H. C. Brunton, L. E. Holmer, L. E. Popov, M. Mergl, J. R. Laurie, M. G. Bassett, L. R. M. Cocks, J.-Y. Rong, S. S. Lazarev, R. E. Grant, P. R. Racheboeuf, Y.-G. Jin, B. R. Wardlaw, D. A. T. Harper, and A. D. Wright and M. 2000. Part H Brachiopoda (revised): Volumes 2 & 3, Linguliformea, Craniiformea, Rhynchonelliformea (part). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1-919 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |