Borehole 1439/2, Athboy, 75 m: Asbian, Ireland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Asperodiscus sp.
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales
Koninckopora tenuiramosa
Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis ? conica
Archaediscidae
Archaediscus (Nodosarchaediscus) sp.
Archaediscus angulatus
Archaediscus karreri
Pseudoammodiscidae
Brunsia sp.
Pseudoammodiscus sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Ireland County:Meath
Coordinates: 53.6° North, 6.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.6° South, 1.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
Key time interval:Asbian
Age range of interval:340.20000 - 336.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Fingal Formation:Naul
Local section:1439/2 Local bed:75 m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 28.4-121.2 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified wackestone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
Lithology description: pale gray, clean, massive wackestones or faintly laminated and graded calcisiltites
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Geology comments: upper foreslope
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:78354
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2008-02-04 03:18:23 Last modified:2008-02-04 05:18:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-02-04 03:18:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26354.1% 5820P. Strogen, G. L. Jones, and I. D. Somerville. 1990. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) boreholes from west county Meath, Ireland. Geological Journal 25:103-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]