Where: Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (54.4° N, 6.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° S, 0.7° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Drumflugh Limestone Member (Blackwater Limestone Formation), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• 3.35 m thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, gray, calcareous limestone and shale
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 6957: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 14.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Pseudozaphrentoides juddi horn coral | |
Lithostrotion pauciradiale horn coral
Lithostrotion junceum Fabre 1955 horn coral | |
Strophomenata | |