Benburb Blackwater Tullymore (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tullymore Limestone Member (Blackwater Limestone Formation), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• 4.06 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, green limestone

• thickly bedded fawn tinged biomicrites with thin bands of discontinuous grey-green micrite.

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 6954: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 14.04.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
"Lithostrotion martini" = Siphonodendron martini, Lithostrotion pauciradiale
"Lithostrotion martini" = Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Koninckophyllum sp.
Koninckophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum bourtonense
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
fragments of small brach
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.