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