Benburb (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.4° N, 6.7° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 1.4° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Crow Hill Conglomerate and Sandstone Member (Maydown Limestone Formation), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• In the upper part of the Maydown Fm. Maximum exposed thickness 5.5 m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous conglomerate and sandstone

• cobble-conglomerates, coarse-grained sandstones, micaceous siltstones, and a bioclastic limestone. rounded gray blocks of limestone, pale-gray and white crossbedded coarse grained calcareous quartz rich sandstones.

Primary reference: W. I. Mitchell and M. Mitchell. 1983. The Lower Carboniferous (Upper Visean) succession at Benburb, Northern Ireland. Reports of the Institute of Geological Sciences (82/12)1-10 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6949: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 14.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

• Crinoidal limestones are mentioned but not identified.
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Chondrichthyes
 Psammodontiformes - Psammodontidae
Psammodus sp.
Psammodus sp. Agassiz 1834 chimaera
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
"Lithostrotion martini" = Siphonodendron martini, Lithostrotion aranea, Lithostrotion pauciradiale
"Lithostrotion martini" = Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Siphonophyllia benburbensis
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia murchisoni
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral