Middle Mudstone Member l Kingscourt: Wuchiapingian, Ireland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Klausipollenites schaubergeri microspore
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Lueckisporites virkkiae microspore
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Jugasporites delasaucei microspore
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? Cycadopites sp. microspore
Wodehouse 1933
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Limitisporites moersensis microspore
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Guttulapollenites sp. microspore
Goubin
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Striatiti spp. microspore
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| P multi-taeniate pollen grains mostly Striatisaccus | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Ireland | County: | Kingscourt |
| Coordinates: | 53.9° North, 6.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.1° North, 17.7° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Altitude: | 71 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Lopingian |
| Stage: | Wuchiapingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Permian | *Epoch: | Zechstein |
| *International age/stage: | Wujiapingian - Changxingan | ||
| Key time interval: | Wuchiapingian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 259.51 - 254.14 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | New Red Sandstone | Formation: | Kingscourt Gypsum | Member: | Middle Mudstone |
| Local section: | boring T11 IGS | Local bed: | l | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Thickness 6-12m. The massively bedded white gypsum of the upper part of the Lower Gypsum Member is suddently succeeded by a succession of fine plastic micaceous reddisch mudstones and clays. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | micaceous,green,red or brown mudstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | micaceous,green,red or brown claystone | ||
| Lithology description: ...succession of fine plastic micaceous reddisch mudstones and clays. These sediments are in places mottled with pale green reduction spots. | |||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original sporopollenin |
| Size of fossils: | microfossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core,chemical,mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:P Present-percentage not known) 1-5% Rare 6-15% Frequent 16-25% Common >25 % Abundant | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 26376 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Looy | Enterer: | C. Looy |
| Modifier: | C. Looy | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2002-10-15 01:40:33 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-10-15 01:40:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6998. | ETE | H. Visscher. 1971. The Permian and Triassic of the Kingscourt Outlier, Ireland. Geological Survey of Ireland Special Paper 1:1-114 [C. Looy/C. Looy/M. Uhen] |