Sutton, Howth Peninsula (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Also known as Reef 437

Where: Ireland (53.4° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 13.3° S, 2.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Feltrim Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Upper Tournaisian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified lime mudstone and lithified wackestone

• near the top of a mud-mound
• massive, pale grey, fine-grained peloidal lime mudstones and skeletal wackestones; with crinoids, ostracods, sponge spicules, bryozoans

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. D. Somerville and S. Rodriguez. 2010. A new genus and species of colonial rugose coral from the Late Tournaisian (Waulsortian) mud-mounds in Ireland: its ecological associations and depositional setting. Palaeoworld 19:414-425 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99654: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
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Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
"Fasciculophyllum" sp. Thomson 1883 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Amplexocarinia sp. Soshkina 1928 horn coral
 Stauriida - Axophyllidae
Howthia suttonensis n. gen. n. sp.
Howthia suttonensis n. gen. n. sp. Somerville and Rodriguez 2010 horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836