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Main Street Listowel

Main Street Listowel

Site Details

Location
Main Street Listowel
Grid reference
52.445700845, -9.48615825
Fossil Name
Brachiopods, crinoids
Fossil Type
Various marine animals (shells and other invertebrate animals – without backbones)
Fossil Age
Carboniferous
Rock Type
Limestone
Access Info
Dark grey limestone along the footpaths on Main Street
Fossil Info
Brachiopod fossils can be found in the dark grey limestone that lines the footpaths along Main Street. Crinoids appear as grey circular shapes in the light grey limestone of the stone bench in the museum garden.

Find out more about the fossils at this site

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Ireland's Fossil Heritage

School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, T23 TK30,

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