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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
aff. Carbonicola sp. MacCoy 1855 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Reticuloceras gracile ammonite |