Ardagh Quarry, Kingscourt: Asbian - Brigantian, Ireland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae
- Oscillatoriales
- Girvanellaceae
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Girvanella sp.
Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
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Cyanophyceae
- Garwoodiaceae
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Ortonella sp.
Garwood 1914
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Tetrataxidae
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Tetrataxis sp.
Ehrenberg 1854
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Rhodophyceae
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Ungdarella sp.
Maslov 1956
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Rhodophyceae
- Aoujgaliaceae
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Aoujgalia sp.
Termier and Termier 1950
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Stacheinaceae
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Epistacheoides sp.
Petryk and Mamet 1972
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Florideophyceae
- Corallinales
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Stacheoides sp.
Cummings 1955
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Florideophyceae
- Cryptonemiales
- Archaeolithophyllaceae
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Archaeolithophyllum sp.
Johnson 1956
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Chlorophyceae
- Dasycladales
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Koninckopora sp.
Lee 1912
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Chlorophyceae
- Dasycladales
- Beresellaceae
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Kamaenella sp.
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Kamaena sp.
Antropov 1967
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Lithostrotionidae
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Siphonodendron sp.
McCoy 1849
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Lithostrotion sp.
Fleming 1828
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Cephalopoda
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Nautiloidea indet.
Agassiz 1847
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
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Goniatitida indet.
Hyatt 1884
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Fenestellida
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Fenestellida indet.
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Blastoidea
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Blastoidea indet.
Say 1825
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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% 2240 | I. 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] |