Borehole 1439/2, Athboy, 645 m (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.9° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 2.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 5 Member (Lucan Formation), Holkerian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• 615.1-675.3 m, unit 5b (615.1-637.9 m) = Ardmulchan Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• lower foreslope and basin margin
• bluish, mottled and bioturbated micrites with overlying skeletal packstones in the lower part, thick shales and mudstones alternating with thin limestones in the upper part (Ardmulchan Member)

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 78342: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Globospiroplectammina sp.
Foraminifera
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
Uralodiscus rotundus, ? Glomodiscus sp., Archaediscus involutus, Archaediscus concavus, Archaediscus (Nodosarchaediscus) sp., Archaediscus inflexus, Archaediscus varsanofievae, Archaediscus tataricus, Archaediscus stilus
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyranopsis ? pechorica
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
Pseudoammodiscus sp.
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis conica
 Tetrataxoidea - Valvulinellidae
Valvulinella tchotchiai, Valvulinella cf. conciliata
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? Biorbis duplex
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Koninckopora tenuiramosa