Benburb Blackwater Drumflugh (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.4° N, 6.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° S, 0.7° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Drumflugh Limestone Member (Blackwater Limestone Formation), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• 3.35 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, gray, calcareous limestone and shale

• dark gray calcareous shales alternate with pale grey flaggy and rubbly bedded biomicrites. bioturbated.

Primary reference: W. I. Mitchell and M. Mitchell. 1983. The Lower Carboniferous (Upper Visean) succession at Benburb, Northern Ireland. Reports of the Institute of Geological Sciences (82/12)1-10 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6956: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 14.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

• Trilobite fragments.
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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Metaphillipsia sp." = Eocyphinium
"Metaphillipsia sp." = Eocyphinium Reed 1942 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Gigantoproductus edelburgensis
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion pauciradiale