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