ammonites
Borehole 1439/2, Athboy, 800 m (Carboniferous to of Ireland)

Where: Ireland (53.6° N, 6.9° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° S, 2.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 4 Member (Lucan Formation), Arundian to Arundian (345.0 - 339.4 Ma)

• 675.3-906.5 m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• coarser limestones with bioclastic debris (crinoids), alternating with black shales which increase in thickness in the middle part, micrite at the top

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: P. Strogen, G. L. Jones, and I. D. Somerville. 1990. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) boreholes from west county Meath, Ireland. Geological Journal 25:103-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78341: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.02.2008