Borehole 1439/2, Athboy, 1297 m (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.9° W: paleocoordinates 13.1° S, 3.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone

• fourth Waulsortian mudbank, 2.9 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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 78291: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.02.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Heterocorallia - Heterophylliidae
Hexaphyllia sp. Shtukenberg 1904
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Aoujgaliaceae indet. Termier and Vachard 1975
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandiidae indet. Cummings 1955
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
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