Lime Kiln Bay, near Portrane: Cautleyan, Ireland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
"Orthoceras" aff. elongatocinctum Portlock 1843
13 specimens
GSI F05936 to F05940, F085942
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Tripteroceratidae
? Allumettoceras sp. Foerste 1926
3 specimens
GSI F08541, F10926; SM A16187
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Streptis monilifera (M'Coy 1846)
Wright 1964
original and current combination Triplesia monilifera
Triplesia cf. insularis Eichwald 1843
Wright 1964
    = Triplesia hintsae Cocks 2014
Cocks 2014
Oxoplecia cooperi Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Oxoplecia cf. plicata (Wiman 1907)
Wright 1964
Triplesia plicata
Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Vellamo sp. Opik 1930
Wright 1964
Vellamo sulculata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Strophomenata - Billingsellida - Gonambonitidae
Kullervo complectens (Wiman 1907)
Wright 1964
Orthisina complectens
Kullervo complectens albida
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites humilidorsatus Wright 1964
Wright 1964
recombined as Sulevorthis humilidorsatus
Taphrorthis sp. Cooper 1956
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Portranella angulocostellata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Productorthidae
Nicolella actoniae (de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Plaesiomys porcata (M'Coy 1846)
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Ptychopleurella twenhofeli (Wright 1964)
Wright 1964
Ptychopleurella separata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Wright 1964
Dolerorthis inaequicostata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis maritima Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Glyptorthis maritima magna
Spinorthis geniculata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Wright 1964
Plectorthis perditosulcata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Schizophorella fallax (Salter 1846)
Wright 1964
Schizophorella fallax silicis
Hebertella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhactorthidae
Rhactorthis sp. Williams 1963
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Scaphorthis sulcata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Mcewanella dorsisulcata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicoelosia lata Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Bancroftina sp. Sinclair 1946
Wright 1964
Isorthis bailyi Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Dalmanella portranensis Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Harknessellidae
Reuschella sp. Bancroft 1928
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura erecta Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Saukrodictyidae
Saukrodictya hibernica Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Rhynchonellata - Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides cf. asteroidea Reed 1917
Wright 1964
corrected as Skenidioides asteroideus
Skenidioides paucicostatus Wright 1964
Wright 1964
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Acanthocrania sp. Williams 1943
Wright 1963 3 specimens
Philhedrella celtica
Wright 1963 2 specimens
synonym of Petrocrania
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Rowellella minuta Wright 1963
Wright 1963 6 specimens
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
Wright 1963 3 specimens
Leptobolus rarus Wright 1963
Wright 1963 1 specimen
Lingulata - Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula cf. perfecta Cooper 1956
Wright 1963 10 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Schizotreta sp. Kutorga 1848
Wright 1963 1 specimen
Schizotreta concava Wright 1963
Wright 1963 3 specimens
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Wright 1963 1 specimen
Orbiculoidea shallochensis Reed 1917
Wright 1963 3 specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Trematidae
Trematis sp. Sharpe 1848
Wright 1963 1 specimen
Lingulata - Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
Multispinula sp. Rowell 1962
Wright 1963 2 specimens
Acanthambonia portranensis Wright 1963
Wright 1963 4 specimens
Lingulata - Acrotretida - Scaphelasmatidae
Scaphelasma sp. Cooper 1956
Wright 1963 1 specimen
Lingulata - Acrotretida - Ephippelasmatidae
? Ephippelasma sp. Cooper 1956
Wright 1963 1 specimen
Lingulata - Acrotretida - Eoconulidae
Eoconulus transversus Wright 1963
Wright 1963 4 specimens
Lingulata - Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Spondylotreta parva Wright 1963
Wright 1963 6 specimens
Spondylotreta cf. parva Wright 1963
Wright 1963 5 specimens
Conodonta - Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus sp. Ethington 1959
Ferretti et al. 2014 57 fragments
Panderodus gracilis (Branson and Mehl 1933)
Ferretti et al. 2014 158 fragments
Belodina confluens Sweet 1979
Ferretti et al. 2014 4 fragments
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida
Ozarkodina pseudofissilis
Ferretti et al. 2014 44 fragments
? Plectodina sp.
Ferretti et al. 2014 3 fragments
Conodonta - Belodellida - Belodellidae
Walliserodus amplissimus Serpagli 1967
Ferretti et al. 2014 26 fragments
Conodonta - Belodellida - Ansellidae
Hamarodus brevirameus (Walliser 1964)
Ferretti et al. 2014 100 fragments
Conodonta - Belodellida - Dapsilodontidae
Dapsilodus mutatus (Branson and Mehl 1933)
Ferretti et al. 2014 88 fragments
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Aphelognathus sp.
Ferretti et al. 2014 57 fragments
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Icriodella superba
Ferretti et al. 2014 68 fragments
Rhodesognathus elegans (Rhodes 1953)
Ferretti et al. 2014 36 fragments
Birksfeldia circumplicata Orchard 1980
Ferretti et al. 2014 27 fragments
Amorphognathus sp. Branson and Mehl 1933
Ferretti et al. 2014 715 fragments
Amorphognathus aff. ordovicicus Bergström and Bergström 1996
Ferretti et al. 2014 1 fragment
Amorphognathus ventilatus Ferretti and Barnes 1997
Ferretti et al. 2014 3 fragments
Amorphognathus duftonus Rhodes 1955
Ferretti et al. 2014 4 fragments
Amorphognathus superbus (Rhodes 1953)
Ferretti et al. 2014 17 fragments
Conodonta - Prioniodontida
Pseudooneotodus sp. Drygant 1974
Ferretti et al. 2014 2 fragments
Pseudooneotodus mitratus (Moskalenko 1973)
Ferretti et al. 2014 22 fragments
Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Strachanognathidae
Scabbardella altipes (Hennigsmoen 1948)
Ferretti et al. 2014 156 fragments
Decoriconus costulatus
Ferretti et al. 2014 20 fragments
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Venoistodus venustus
Ferretti et al. 2014 30 fragments
Drepanoistodus suberectus (Branson and Mehl 1933)
Ferretti et al. 2014 48 fragments
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Protopanderodus liripipus Kennedy et al. 1979
Ferretti et al. 2014 69 fragments
Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Cornuodontidae
? Cornuodus sp.
Ferretti et al. 2014 37 fragments
unclassified
Eocarniodus aff. gracilis (Rhodes 1955)
Ferretti et al. 2014 182 fragments
see common names

Geography
Country:Ireland State/province:Leinster County:Fingal (former northern part of County Dublin)
Coordinates: 53.5° North, 6.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° South, 19.1° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:middle Late Ordovician 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Cautleyan
Age range of interval:449.50000 - 445.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Duncannon Formation:Portrane Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SM
Collection method comments: GSI = Geological Survey of Ireland
SM = Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, UK
Metadata
Also known as:Portraine; locality C of Gardiner & Reynolds (1897, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 53); locality 2 of Wright (1963, Bull. BMNH Geol. 8)
Database number:89130
Authorizer:B. Kröger, W. Kiessling, P. Wagner Enterer:T. Liebrecht, P. Wagner, M. Krause, B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-05-06 03:12:06 Last modified:2014-08-21 16:20:29
Access level:the public Released:2009-05-06 03:12:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29904. D. H. Evans. 2002. Some Additional Ordovician and Silurian Cephalopods from Ireland. In P. N. Wyse Jackson, M. A. Parkes and R. Wood (eds.), Studies in Palaeozoic palaeontology and biostratigraphy in honour of Charles Hepworth Holland. Special Papers in Paleontology 67:77-96 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

62099 L. R. M. Cocks. 2014. The Late Ordovician brachiopods of southern Pembrokeshire and adjacent south-western Wales. Special Papers in Palaeontology 91:1-89 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
72841 A. Ferretti, S. M. Bergström, and G. D. Sevastopulo. 2014. Katian conodonts from the Portrane Limestone: the first Ordovician conodont fauna described from Ireland. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 53(2):105-119 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]
52331 A. D. Wright. 1963. The fauna of the Portrane Limestone 1. The inarticulate brachiopods. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 8(5):224-254 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]
54010 A. D. Wright. 1964. The Fauna of the Potrane Limestone, II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 9(6):157-256 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]