Also known as Pomeroy inlier
Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 6.9° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 30.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bardahessiagh Formation, Rocklandian to Rocklandian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)
• The fossils come from unknown positions within the Bardahessiagh Formation (always spelled "Bardahessaigh Formation" by Evans, 1993). According to fig. 2 in Evans (1993) the Bardahessiagh Fm. spans the Rocklandian and Kirkfieldian stages.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, micaceous, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: GSM = British Geological Survey
Primary reference: D. H. Evans. 1994. The Cephalopod Fauna of the Bardahessaigh Formation (Caradoc Series) of Pomeroy, County Tyrone. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 13:11-29 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89159: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 07.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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