Black Head Bay (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.8° N, 5.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 3.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hibernian Greensands Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• Barnacles all collected from the lower greenstone beds, and not found in the pure overlying chalk

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. MacAdam

• Repository: Ulster Museum, Belfast

Primary reference: J. MacAdam. 1858. On a new fossil cirripede. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series 1:321-325 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210342: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Archaeolepadomorpha - Stramentidae
"Loricula macadami n. sp." = Stramentum pulchellum
"Loricula macadami n. sp." = Stramentum pulchellum Sowerby 1843 barnacle