Borehole 1439/2, Athboy, 1565 m (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 34.8° S, 16.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Slane Castle Formation (Boyne Group), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• 1562.9-1572.1 m, lower Slane Castle

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified packstone and lithified wackestone

• tranquil subtidal shelf
• thinly-bedded and nodular argillaceous bioclastic packstones and wackestones, interbedded with shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: P. Strogen, G. L. Jones, and I. D. Somerville. 1990. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) boreholes from west county Meath, Ireland. Geological Journal 25:103-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78288: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus coralloides
Amplexus coralloides Sowerby 1814 horn coral
 Stauriida - Plerophyllidae
Cryptophyllum hibernicum
Cryptophyllum hibernicum Carruthers 1919 horn coral
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
"Fasciculophyllum" ambiguum
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Zaphrentites delanouei