Benburb Blackwater Glenview: Asbian - Brigantian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Ostracoda
unclassified
Foraminifera indet. Eichwald 1830
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.4° North, 6.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.8° South, 8.1° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Visean 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous *Epoch:Late/Upper Visean
*International age/stage:Asbian - Brigantian
Key time interval: Asbian - Brigantian
Age range of interval: 339.9 - 330.3 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Blackwater Limestone Member:Glenview Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 2.79 m thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ooidal,peloidal,brown lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: white weathering, orange-brown, oopelsparites.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:6955
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:E. Leckey Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-04-14 14:24:49 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-04-14 14:24:49
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
436. W. I. Mitchell and M. Mitchell. 1983. The Lower Carboniferous (Upper Visean) succession at Benburb, Northern Ireland. Reports of the Institute of Geological Sciences (82/12)1-10 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]