Milverton Quarry Buildup, Dublin (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Also known as Reef 3653

Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 7.6° S, 1.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 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.
• buildup facies is dominated by peloid-rich matrix textures

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 76882: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Cyanophyceae
  - Aphralysiaceae
Aphralysia sp. Garwood 1914
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Aoujgaliaceae indet. Termier and Vachard 1975
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
 Dasycladales -
Foraminifera
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
 Fusulinina - Pseudolituotubidae
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Eostaffella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1948
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Fusulinina - Tournayellidae
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854