ammonites
Feltrim Hill, Waulsortian buildup, cover shales (Carboniferous to of Ireland)

Also known as Reef 437

Where: Ireland (53.4° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Feltrim Formation, Arundian to Arundian (345.0 - 339.4 Ma)

• Upper Caninia-Lower Seminula Zone

•JA: entered as Chadian, but the Upper Caninia Zone is Arundian and the Seminula Zone is Holkerian: see Lowe 1989 in Ford, Limestones and Caves of Wales

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified mudstone

• well-bedded, pyritic mudstones with subsidiary thin bands of crinoidal debris

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: R.G.S. Hudson, M. J. Clarke, and Sevastopulo and G.D. 1966. A detailed account of the fauna and age of a Waulsortain Reef Knoll Limestone and associated shales, Feltrim, Co., Dublin. Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, ser. A 2(16):251-272 [G. Webster/G. Webster] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76517: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2007