Salmon Hill Buildup, Dublin (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Also known as Reef 3651

Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 9.0° S, 2.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holmpatrick Formation, Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Late Arundian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified limestone

• The buildups developed on the Milverton carbonate platform, whereas the Waulsortian buildups in the S Co. Dublin developed in a deeper ramp setting of the Dublin Basin.
• 3 m massive pale grey micritic rocks, peloidal matrix textures predominate and are locally coated by cryptalgal structures, dasycladacean algae are absent

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. D. Somerville, N. A. H. Pickard, P. Strogen and G. L. Jones. 1992. Early to mid-Visean shallow water platform buildups, north Co. Dublin, Ireland. Geological Journal 27:151-172 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76880: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cyanophyceae
  - Aphralysiaceae
Aphralysia sp.
Aphralysia sp. Garwood 1914
Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp.
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
Planoarchaediscus sp., Paraarchaediscus (Nodosarchaediscus) sp., Paraarchaediscus sp.
Paraarchaediscus sp. Orlova 1955
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
Pseudoammodiscus sp.
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandia sp.
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
Eotextularia diversa
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Tabulipora sp.
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp.
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Michelinia sp.
Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841 tabulate coral
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836