Popeshall Coast 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)

• boulders from the Late Chadian Lane Formation in the Early Brigantian Drumanagh Member

• 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.
• boulders of buildup facies

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 76878: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Heterocorallia - Heterophylliidae
Hexaphyllia sp. Shtukenberg 1904
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Tournayellidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Valvulinellidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Fusulinina - Palaeospiroplectamminidae
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
 Fusulinina - Pseudolituotubidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Aoujgaliaceae indet. Termier and Vachard 1975
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878