Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Rocks belong to the Ballycastle Coalfield; there is no published age for this outcrop but unpublished spre data suggests that it is Lower Carboniferous (Brigantian). Mites come from 10 m-thick interval.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: chemical, hydroflouric

• Repository: Ulster Museum

Primary reference: L. S. Subías and A. Arillo. 2002. Oribatid mite fossils from the Upper Devonian of South Mountain, New York and the Lower Carboniferous of County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Acariformes, Oribatida). Estudios del Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Álava 17:93-106 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163783: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.11.2014

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