Lough Mask, western shore, near Tourmakeady: Telychian, Ireland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Oncocerida
- Oncoceratidae
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? Cyrtorizoceras sp.
Hyatt 1900
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| GSI F00061; referred to as "Amphicyrtoceras? sp." in Evans (1994, Irish J. Earth. Sci. 13, p. 141) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ireland | State/province: | Connacht | County: | Mayo |
| Coordinates: | 53.7° North, 9.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 18.4° South, 24.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Silurian | Epoch: | Llandovery |
| Stage: | Telychian | 10 m.y. bin: | Silurian 1 |
| Key time interval: | Telychian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 438.50000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kilbride |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | burrows,gray siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: " [...] grey, slightly cleaved, bioturbated siltstone." (Evans, 2002) | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Toormakeady | ||
| Database number: | 89146 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-05-06 18:38:05 | Last modified: | 2009-05-06 21:38:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-05-06 18:38:05 |
| 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] |