Borehole 1439/2, Athboy, 950 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: 3 Member (Lucan Formation), Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• 906.5-1009.1 m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• more distal lower slope
• thicker bedded black fissile shales in the lower part, cleaner limestones and calcareous mudstones in the upper part

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 78340: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Koninckopora inflata
Koninckopora inflata de Koninck 1842
Foraminifera
 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
Eoparastaffella sp.
Eoparastaffella sp. Vdovenko 1954
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
Glomodiscus sp.
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis conica