Sutton, Howth Peninsula: Tournaisian, Ireland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
(Ehrenberg 1831)
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Ostracoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Antiphyllidae
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"Fasciculophyllum" sp.
Thomson 1883
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Laccophyllidae
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Amplexocarinia sp.
Soshkina 1928
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Axophyllidae
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Howthia suttonensis n. gen., n. sp.
Somerville and Rodriguez 2010
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Syringoporidae
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Syringopora sp.
Goldfuss 1826
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unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Grant 1836
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Geography
| Country: | Ireland |
| Coordinates: | 53.4° North, 6.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.3° South, 2.9° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Tournaisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Tournaisian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 358.90000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Feltrim | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper Tournaisian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified lime mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified wackestone |
| Lithology description: massive, pale grey, fine-grained peloidal lime mudstones and skeletal wackestones; with crinoids, ostracods, sponge spicules, bryozoans | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: near the top of a mud-mound | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 437 | ||
| Database number: | 99654 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-11-18 01:53:55 | Last modified: | 2010-11-17 08:53:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-11-18 01:53:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 34269. | I. D. Somerville and S. Rodriguez. 2010. A new genus and species of colonial rugose coral from the Late Tournaisian (Waulsortian) mud-mounds in Ireland: its ecological associations and depositional setting. Palaeoworld 19:414-425 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |