Also known as Reef 3648
Where: Ireland (54.3° N, 8.2° W: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 2.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dartry Limestone Formation, Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)
• junceum beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: P. Cozar, I. D. Somerville, M. Aretz and H. G. Herbig. 2005. Biostratigraphical dating of Upper Visean limestones (NW Ireland) using foraminiferans, calcareous algae and rugose corals. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 23:1-23 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76712: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
Siphonodendron pauciradiale McCoy 1844 horn coral
Siphonodendron junceum Fleming 1828 horn coral | |
Pseudozaphrentoides juddi horn coral | |
Foraminifera | |
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854 | |
Rhodophyceae | |