Ardagh Quarry, Kingscourt (Carboniferous to of Ireland)

Also known as Reef 2176

Where: Ireland (53.9° N, 6.7° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 0.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mullaghfin Formation, Asbian to Asbian (339.4 - 326.4 Ma)

• Late Asbian-Early Brigantian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified wackestone and lithified lime mudstone

• 95 m thick micritic buildup complex. Peloidal wackestones and lime mudstones with microbial, cryptalgal and thrombolitic fabrics ("core" facies) pass up into intervals with foraminiferal-algal-rich packstones and grainstones ("crestal" facies). At the top phylloid algal/colonial coral framestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Somerville, P. Strogen, and A. Somerville. 1997. Upper Visean platform carbonates and buildups in the Kingscourt Outlier,Ireland. Prace Panstwowego Instytutu Geologicznego 157(2):143-152 [T. Olszewski/K. Tracy/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73468: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
Rhodophyceae
 Florideae -
Ungdarella sp. Maslov 1956
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Aoujgalia sp. Termier and Termier 1950
Stacheinaceae
  - Stacheinaceae
Epistacheoides sp. Petryk and Mamet 1972
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Stacheoides sp. Cummings 1955
 Cryptonemiales - Archaeolithophyllaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Kamaena sp. Antropov 1967
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron sp. McCoy 1849 horn coral
Lithostrotion sp. Fleming 1828 horn coral
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
 Goniatitida -
Goniatitida indet. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
 Fenestellida -
Blastoidea
  -
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid