Where: Ireland (53.9° N, 6.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 10.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Siltstone Member (Kingscourt Sandstone Formation), Griesbachian (251.9 - 250.5 Ma)
• Thickness 80-100m. Strata of this member come to surface in a river-section near Cormey Bridge, north-east of Kingscourt, and are also well-exposed in a nearby brick-pit worked by the Kingscourt Bricks and Shale Company.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green siltstone and gray sandstone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical,
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26379: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 15.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Guttulapollenites | |
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Vittatina | |
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Cycadopites | |
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Ginkgoopsida | |
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Stellapollenites | |
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Lundbladispora | |
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