Raheen (Ordovician of Ireland)

Also known as Was: Duncannon Group, Raheen, Ireland

Where: Lenister, Ireland (53.5° N, 7.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 31.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Diplograptus foliaceus graptolite zone, Middle Member (Campile Formation), Soudleyan (458.4 - 457.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. A. Parkes. 1994. The brachiopods of the Duncannon Group (Middle-Upper Ordovician) of southeast Ireland. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Geology) 50(2):105-174 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55704: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 03.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Autoloxolichas laxatus" = Allolichas laxatus
"Autoloxolichas laxatus" = Allolichas laxatus McCoy 1846 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx austinii trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene spp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Calyptaulax sp. n. sp. Cooper 1930 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Cybelinae indet. Holliday 1942 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Porambonitidae
? Porambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
? Howellites sp. Bancroft 1945
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Chonetoidea sp. Jones 1928
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Scyphozoa
 Conulariida -
Conulariida indet. Miller and Gurley 1896 jellyfish