Also known as Portraine; locality C of Gardiner & Reynolds (1897, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 53); locality 2 of Wright (1963, Bull. BMNH Geol. 8)
Where: Leinster, Ireland (53.5° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 19.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Portrane Limestone Formation (Duncannon Group), Cautleyan (449.5 - 445.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, replaced with calcite
Reposited in the SM
• GSI = Geological Survey of Ireland
•SM = Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, UK
Primary reference: D. H. Evans. 2002. Some Additional Ordovician and Silurian Cephalopods from Ireland. In P. N. Wyse Jackson, M. A. Parkes and R. Wood (eds.), Studies in Palaeozoic palaeontology and biostratigraphy in honour of Charles Hepworth Holland. Special Papers in Paleontology 67:77-96 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89130: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 06.05.2009, edited by Björn Kröger, Mihaela Krause and Pete Wagner
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
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Strophomenata | |
Streptis monilifera4 M'Coy 1846
Triplesia hintsae1 Cocks 2014
Oxoplecia cooperi4 Wright 1964
Oxoplecia cf. plicata4 Wiman 1907 | |
Vellamo sp.4 Opik 1930
Vellamo sulculata4 Wright 1964 | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
"Orthambonites humilidorsatus" = Sulevorthis humilidorsatus4 Wright 1964
Taphrorthis sp.4 Cooper 1956 | |
Portranella angulocostellata4 Wright 1964 | |
Nicolella actoniae4 de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Plaesiomys porcata4 M'Coy 1846 | |
Ptychopleurella twenhofeli4, Ptychopleurella separata4, Hesperorthis sp.4, Dolerorthis inaequicostata4
Ptychopleurella twenhofeli4 Wright 1964
Ptychopleurella separata4 Wright 1964
Hesperorthis sp.4 Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Dolerorthis inaequicostata4 Wright 1964 | |
Spinorthis geniculata4 Wright 1964 | |
Plectorthis sp.4 Hall and Clarke 1892
Plectorthis perditosulcata4 Wright 1964
Hebertella sp.4 Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Rhactorthis sp.4 Williams 1963 | |
Scaphorthis sulcata4 Wright 1964 | |
Mcewanella dorsisulcata4 Wright 1964 | |
Dicoelosia lata4 Wright 1964 | |
Reuschella sp.4 Bancroft 1928 | |
Laticrura erecta4 Wright 1964 | |
Saukrodictya hibernica4 Wright 1964 | |
"Skenidioides cf. asteroidea" = Skenidioides asteroideus4 Reed 1917
Skenidioides paucicostatus4 Wright 1964 | |
Craniata | |
Acanthocrania sp.3 Williams 1943
"Philhedrella celtica" = Petrocrania3 | |
Lingulata | |
Paterula cf. perfecta3 Cooper 1956 | |
Schizotreta sp.3 Kutorga 1848
Schizotreta concava3 Wright 1963
Orbiculoidea sp.3 d'Orbigny 1847
Orbiculoidea shallochensis3 Reed 1917 | |
Trematis sp.3 Sharpe 1848 | |
Multispinula sp.3 Rowell 1962
Acanthambonia portranensis3 Wright 1963 | |
Scaphelasma sp.3 Cooper 1956 | |
? Ephippelasma sp.3 Cooper 1956 | |
Eoconulus transversus3 Wright 1963 | |
Spondylotreta parva3 Wright 1963
Spondylotreta cf. parva3 Wright 1963 | |
Conodonta | |
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Icriodella superba2, Rhodesognathus elegans2, Birksfeldia circumplicata2, Amorphognathus sp.2, Amorphognathus aff. ordovicicus2, Amorphognathus ventilatus2, Amorphognathus duftonus2, Amorphognathus superbus2
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Conodontophorida | |
Eocarniodus aff. gracilis2 Rhodes 1955 |