Where: Ireland (52.8° N, 7.0° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 4.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Triquitrites sinani - Cirratriradites saturni other zone, Coolbaun Coal Formation, Westphalian A (318.7 - 316.9 Ma)

• "From the three-foot bed of black shale immediately over the coal, associated with plants and small fresh-water bivalves allied to Unio." The coal seam worked at Bilboa was the No. 3 coal of the Geological Survey, or Ward's Seam (Neville, 1956). Ward's Seam is at the base of the Coolbaun Coal Formation of Higgs & O'Connor (2005). The new palynological data obtained from the Westphahan rocks of the Leinster Coalfield confirm the succession is exclusively Westphalian A (Langsettian) in age. The miospore assemblages recorded are assigned to the Triquitrites sinani - Cirratriradites saturni (SS) zone for the lower part of the Coolbaun Coal and underlying units, equivalent to the Lenisulcata non-marine bivalve chronozone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.H. Kinahan, W.H. Baily

• Repository: Geological Survey of Ireland

Primary reference: W. H. Baily. 1858. On a crustacean from the coal-measures, with some remarks on the genus Limulus. Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin 8:89-91 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216070: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.12.2020

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