Ardagh Quarry, Kingscourt: Asbian - Brigantian, Ireland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Cyanophyceae - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
Rhodophyceae
Ungdarella sp. Maslov 1956
Rhodophyceae - Aoujgaliaceae
Aoujgalia sp. Termier and Termier 1950
Stacheinaceae
Epistacheoides sp. Petryk and Mamet 1972
Florideophyceae - Corallinales
Stacheoides sp. Cummings 1955
Florideophyceae - Cryptonemiales - Archaeolithophyllaceae
Archaeolithophyllum sp. Johnson 1956
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales
Koninckopora sp. Lee 1912
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Kamaenella sp.
Kamaena sp. Antropov 1967
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron sp. McCoy 1849
Lithostrotion sp. Fleming 1828
Cephalopoda
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida
Goniatitida indet. Hyatt 1884
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Fenestellida
Fenestellida indet.
Blastoidea
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825
see common names

Geography
Country:Ireland
Coordinates: 53.9° North, 6.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.8° South, 0.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Middle Mississippian
Stage:Visean
Key time interval:Asbian - Brigantian
Age range of interval:339.40000 - 326.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mullaghfin
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Late Asbian-Early Brigantian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
Secondary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Lithology description: 95 m thick micritic buildup complex. Peloidal wackestones and lime mudstones with microbial, cryptalgal and thrombolitic fabrics ("core" facies) pass up into intervals with foraminiferal-algal-rich packstones and grainstones ("crestal" facies). At the top phylloid algal/colonial coral framestone.
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 2176
Database number:73468
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-18 02:07:24 Last modified:2007-06-18 05:07:24
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-18 02:07:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11519.1% 2240I. Somerville, P. Strogen, and A. Somerville. 1997. Upper Visean platform carbonates and buildups in the Kingscourt Outlier,Ireland. Prace Panstwowego Instytutu Geologicznego 157(2):143-152 [T. Olszewski/K. Tracy/U. Merkel]