Popeshall Quarry Buildup, Dublin (Carboniferous of Ireland)

Also known as Reef 3649

Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 2.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lane Formation, Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Late Chadian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified limestone

• The buildups developed on the Milverton carbonate platform, whereas the Waulsortian buildups in the S Co. Dublin developed in a deeper ramp setting of the Dublin Basin.
• 8 m of pale grey buildup facies; dasycladacean algae are locally abundant, cryptalgal structures at several horizons, crinoid debris is common, rare heterocorals

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. D. Somerville, N. A. H. Pickard, P. Strogen and G. L. Jones. 1992. Early to mid-Visean shallow water platform buildups, north Co. Dublin, Ireland. Geological Journal 27:151-172 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76877: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Luteotubulus sp.
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp.
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Fusulinoidea - Eostaffellidae
Eostaffella sp.
Eostaffella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1948
 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
Eoparastaffella simplex
 Fusulinina - Tournayellidae
Pseudolituotubella sp.
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
Eotextularia diversa
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandia sp.
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
Brunsia sp., Pseudoammodiscus sp.
 Fusulinina - Pseudolituotubidae
Pseudolituotuba gravata
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Dainella sp.
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Koninckopora cf. mortelmansi, Koninckopora "sp. A"
Anthozoa
 Heterocorallia - Heterophylliidae
Hexaphyllia sp.
Hexaphyllia sp. Shtukenberg 1904
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail