Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 1.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 10 Member (Lucan Formation), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)
• 121.2-212.7 m
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone and lithified shale
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 78347: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Cribrostomum sp. Moeller 1879 | |
Eostaffella mosquensis Vissarionova 1948 | |
"Howchinia bradyana" = Patellina bradyana, Gigasbia gigas
"Howchinia bradyana" = Patellina bradyana Howchin 1888 | |
Chlorophyceae | |