N of Cannonstown House, County Kildare (Grange Hill Mbr.): Longvillian, Ireland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Proteoceratidae
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Isorthoceras sp.
Flower 1962
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8 specimens | |||||||||
| TCD.39023 to 39029; NMW 93.87.G4 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ireland | State/province: | Leinster | County: | Kildare |
| Coordinates: | 53.5° North, 6.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.4° South, 20.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Sandbian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4 |
| Key time interval: | Longvillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 457.40000 - 455.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Grange Allen | Member: | Grange Hill |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: TCD = Trinity College, Dublin;
NMW = National Museum and Galleries of Wales | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 89132 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-05-06 05:16:25 | Last modified: | 2009-05-06 08:29:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-05-06 05:16:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29904. | 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] |