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• Rocks belong to the Ballycastle Coalfield; there is no published age for this outcrop but unpublished spre data suggests that it is Lower Carboniferous (Brigantian).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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gehypochthonimimus hibernicus n. gen. n. sp.
Gehypochthonimimus hibernicus n. gen. n. sp. Subías and Arillo 2002 oribatid mite UM-27125, 27144, 27175
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Archaeoplophora bella n. gen. n. sp.
Archaeoplophora bella n. gen. n. sp. Subías and Arillo 2002 oribatid mite UM-27135, 27130, 27139, 27140, 27187
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Carbochthonius antrimensis n. gen. n. sp.
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Palaeohypochthonius jerami n. gen. n. sp.
Palaeohypochthonius jerami n. gen. n. sp. Subías and Arillo 2002 oribatid mite UM-27265, 27137, 27176, 27178
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Palaeoctenacarus simmsoi n. gen. n. sp.
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Monoaphelocarus carboniferus n. gen. n. sp.
Monoaphelocarus carboniferus n. gen. n. sp. Subías and Arillo 2002 oribatid mite UM-27179, 27120, 27128, 27153
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