Also known as Reef 437
Where: Ireland (53.4° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 2.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zaphrentites other zone, Feltrim Formation, Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)
• Late Courceyan, Upper Zaphrentis Zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: R. G. S. Hudson, M. J. Clarke, and G.D. Sevastopulo. 1966. A detailed account of the fauna and age of a Waulsortian Reef Knoll Limestone and associated shales, Feltrim, Co., Dublin. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, series A 2(16):251-272 [G. Webster/G. Webster/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 76497: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Phillipsia ex gr. gemmulifera Phillips 1836 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Straparollus (Euomphalus) pentangulatus Sowerby 1814 snail | |
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterinopectinella granosa scallop | |
Acanthopecten tessellatus scallop | |
"Syncyclonema sowerbyi" = Pernopecten sowerbyi
"Syncyclonema sowerbyi" = Pernopecten sowerbyi M'Coy 1844 scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Actinoconchus paradoxus, "Actinoconchus cf. lamellosus" = Athyris lamellosa
"Actinoconchus cf. lamellosus" = Athyris lamellosa Léveillé 1835 | |
"Spirifer (Unispirifer) tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis
"Spirifer (Unispirifer) tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis de Koninck 1883 | |
Strophomenata | |
Krotovia aculeata Sowerby 1814 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Anthozoa | |
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral | |
Cyathaxonia cornu Michelin 1846 horn coral | |
Fasciculophyllum ambiguum horn coral
Fasciculophyllum junctoseptata horn coral | |
Zaphrentites ex gr. vaughani horn coral | |
Heterophyllia sp. McCoy 1849 |