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 | |
"Loricula macadami n. sp." = Stramentum pulchellum
"Loricula macadami n. sp." = Stramentum pulchellum Sowerby 1843 barnacle |