Mountcollins (Carboniferous to of Ireland)

Where: Ireland (52.3° N, 9.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 3.5° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: R1c - R2a zone, Kinderscoutian to Kinderscoutian (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified, gray, carbonaceous shale

• dark grey richly carbonaceous shale overlying 0.13 m coal.

Primary reference: R. M. C. Eagar. 1977. Some new Namurian bivalve faunas and their significance in the origin of Carbonicola and in the colonization of Carboniferous deltaic environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B - Biological Sciences 280:535-570 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8213: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 29.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
aff. Carbonicola sp. MacCoy 1855 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
turreted gastropods
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae