Loughrea area, Waulsortian buildups (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Also known as Reef 1181

Where: Ireland (53.1° N, 8.4° W: paleocoordinates 13.8° S, 4.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Scaliognathus anchoralis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. X. Devuyst and A. Lees. 2001. The initiation of Waulsortian buildups in western Ireland. Sedimentology 48:1121-1148 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76445: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Porostromata
  -
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
unclassified
  -
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836