The thickest section of Early Jurassic strata known from onshore Ireland (total thickness 566 m) is reported the Ballinlea-1 well (Rathlin Basin) situated on north coast Northern Ireland. A biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental assessment presented for this largely based calcareous benthic microfossils (foraminifera ostracods). Waterloo Mudstone Formation (Lias Group) has previously receiv...

In the Piedmont Basin (PB), one of northernmost Mediterranean basins recording Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), pollen and plant macroremains (leaves, fruits seeds) were studied in four sedimentary sections post-evaporitic interval (5.6–5.33 Ma). The joint palaeobotanical investigations two datasets allowed reconstruction a floristic assemblage which consists 133 taxa (95 woody 38 non-woody tax...