Borehole 1439/2, Athboy, 1050 m (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° S, 2.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 2 Member (Lucan Formation), Arundian (345.0 - 342.8 Ma)

• 1009.1-1103.7 m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• thinner bedded, laminated and graded limestones, interbedded with calcareous mudstones

Size classes: mesofossils, 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 78339: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Valvulinellidae
Valvulinella sp. Schubert 1907
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Fusulinina - Pseudolituotubidae
Pseudolituotuba sp. Vdovenko 1971