I was recently collecting on the Hook peninsula (Ballymartin Point Formation, Ballysteen Limestone Formation) and am having difficulty in finding specific literature on the abundant crinoid and brachiopod fauna which can be found there. Does anyone have any suggestions on literature or websites which would help me in identifying crinoids and brachiopods found in the lower Carboniferous Tournaisian formations in county Wexford, Ireland?
Perhaps this paper can be helpful:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259590328_Mississippian_%28Tournaisian%29_brachiopods_from_the_Hook_Head_Formation_County_Wexford_%28south-east_Ireland%29
Article Mississippian (Tournaisian) brachiopods from the Hook Head F...
hello Roger,
for sure this will help you
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1994.tb01418.x/abstract
Ausich, W. I., and Sevastopulo, G. D., 2001. The Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian)
crinoids from Hook Head, County Wexford, Ireland. The Palaeontological Society
Monograph, 216:1-136, 13 pls;; supplement 2, Nomenclatural listing of all names
applied to crinoid specimens from the Hook Head fauna with present status
according to Ausich and Sevastopulo (2001) . The Palaeontological Society
supplementary Publication 904871-11. Hook Head Formation Crinoids deposited
in Museums forming the basis of systematic revisions in: Ausich and Sevastopulo
(2001. The Palaeontological Society Supplementary Publication 90488: 1-34. Note:
Supplementary publications reposited in The British Library Supply Centre.
I've already got that paper by now, but thanks anyway for your input. Very nice of you.
You can ask to Bernard Mottequin in Brussels (topic carboniferous/ Ireland/brachiopods) as he is publishing on this subject now but not on the same formation. All the best
He is on Research gate.
You might find it helpful to search the literature for brachiopods and criinoids from Coplow Quarry and Salthill Quarry at Clitheroe in Lancashire that share some similarities with Hooke Head, at least for genera.
Please also keep a look out for dendroid graptolites!
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