Carrick Lough, Fermanagh (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.4° N, 7.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 2.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glencar Formation, Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• top of Glencar Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• distal reef or deeper off-reef
• thin alternating beds of dark argillaceous muddy limestones and paler grey to yellowish bioclastic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. N. Wyse Jackson. 1996. Bryozoa from the Lower Carboniferous (Visean) of County Fermanagh, Ireland. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 52(2):119-171 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76523: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

• brachiopods (abundant), corals, sponges, gastropods, bivalves, trilobites and crinoids reported to be present, but not listed
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Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistulipora incrustans
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora urii, Tabulipora howsii, Tabulipora minima
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
Sulcoretepora parallela
 Cystoporida - Goniocladiidae
Goniocladia cellulifera
 Fenestrata - Chainodictyonidae
Rhombocladia dichotoma
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora cylindrica n. sp., Rhombopora hexagona n. sp.
Rhombopora cylindrica n. sp. Wyse Jackson 1996
Rhombopora hexagona n. sp. Wyse Jackson 1996
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Rhabdomeson progracile, Rhabdomeson rhombiferum
Rhabdomeson rhombiferum Phillips 1836
 Rhabdomesida - Nikiforovellidae
Clausotrypa ramosa
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Pseudonematopora planatus n. sp., Hexites paradoxus n. sp., Nematopora hibernica n. sp.
Pseudonematopora planatus n. sp. Wyse Jackson 1996
Hexites paradoxus n. sp. Wyse Jackson 1996
Nematopora hibernica n. sp. Wyse Jackson 1996
 Cryptostomata - Hyphasmoporidae
Streblotrypa (Streblotrypa) pectinata
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus colei
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Baculopora megastoma, Ichthyorachis newenhami, Diploporaria marginalis, Diploporaria tenella
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Leioclema indentata n. sp.
Leioclema indentata n. sp. Wyse Jackson 1996