Benburb type section: Asbian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
Pleuropugnoides sp. Ferguson 1966
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.4° North, 6.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.6° South, 11.0° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Key time interval: Asbian
Age range of interval: 340.2 - 336.3 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Blackstokes Limestone Member:Gorestown Mudstone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of the Blackstokes.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pyritic,gray lithified argillaceous,calcareous mudstone
Secondary lithology: lime mudstone
Lithology description: tough, blocky-bedded mudstones with two thin beds of micrite. lower limestone is 20 cm thick, grey, pyritous. upper is 50 cm and argillaceous.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Section has been contact metamorphosed by Tertiary intrusives but fossils have not been "damaged."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Brachiopod assemblage is indicative of "reef facies."
Metadata
Database number:6950
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:M. Sommers Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-04-14 11:21:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:32
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]