Nobber: Ivorian, Ireland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
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Lissodus sp.
Brough 1935
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| multiple morphotypes | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Phoebodontiformes
- Phoebodontidae
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Thrinacodus incurvus
(Newberry and Worthen 1866)
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Duncan 2003 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Ireland | State/province: | Meath |
| Coordinates: | 53.8° North, 6.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.6° South, 3.1° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Tournaisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Ivorian | Conodont zone: | Polygnathus mehli |
| Age range of interval: | 353.70000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kilbride Limestone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: "crinoidal limestone" | |
| Environment: | deep subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: "moderately shallow water on a high energy, carbonate shelf, tens of kilometers from the contemporary shoreline" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,chemical |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Trinity College collection
samples were dissolved in formic acid before picking | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Urlingford | ||
| Database number: | 90696 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-08-12 20:20:23 | Last modified: | 2009-08-12 23:20:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-08-12 20:20:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30528. | M. Duncan. 2004. Chondrichthyan genus Lissodus from the Lower Carboniferous of Ireland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3):417-428 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 30529 | M. Duncan. 2003. Early Carboniferous chondrichthyan Thrinacodus from Ireland, and a reconstruction of jaw apparatus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(1):113-122 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |