Where: Ireland (52.8° N, 8.7° W: paleocoordinates 43.2° S, 21.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dicellograptus complanatus graptolite zone, Ballyvorgal Group, Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)
• Although there is a specific group of beds, they do not seem to have gotten any more specific a name than the group.
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•Dicellograptus complanatus found in the bed beneath the trilobites
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; brown mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kinahan; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. A. Weir. 1959. Ashgillian trilobites from Co. Clare, Ireland. Palaeontology 1(4):369-383 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 162246: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.09.2014
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Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Thomondia globosa n. gen. n. sp.
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Telephina aff. reedi Ulrich 1930 trilobite | |
Dionide aff. richardsoni trilobite | |
Novaspis aff. albida trilobite | |
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite | |
Bohemilla sp. Barrande 1872 trilobite
Symphysops aff. subarmatus trilobite
Phylacops bituberculatus Weir 1959 trilobite | |
Shumardia extensa n. sp.
Shumardia extensa n. sp. Weir 1959 trilobite | |
Pseudosphaerexochus sp. Schmidt 1881 trilobite | |
Dindymene ovalis n. sp. Weir 1959 trilobite
Staurocephalus aff. murchisoni Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Artiopoda | |
Corrugatagnostus convergens n. sp.
Corrugatagnostus convergens n. sp. Weir 1959 |