Locality 15, Coopers Creek Fm., near Tyers Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 163.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coopers Creek Limestone Formation, Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone

• ranges from a typical gray limestone through into conglomeratic rocks or even silty, impure limestones; well-bedded towards the base, massive at higher horizons, in general, a coarse calcarenite made up essentially of comminuted bioclastic debris, mainly corals, stromatoporoids, and to a lesser degree, algae; in the boola quarry, the rock approaches more a calcilutite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. M. Philip. 1962. The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 75(n.s.):123-246 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10131: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
"Favosites squamuliferus" = Squameofavosites squamuliferus, Favosites coactilis n. sp.
"Favosites squamuliferus" = Squameofavosites squamuliferus Etheridge 1899 tabulate coral
F. squamuliferus forma bryani (occasional), forma nitidus (rare), other form (occas)
Favosites coactilis n. sp. tabulate coral
rare
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica
Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica tabulate coral
occasional
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Natalophyllum callidum n. sp., Alveolites taenioformis, Alveolites sp.
Natalophyllum callidum n. sp. tabulate coral
rare
Alveolites taenioformis tabulate coral
rare
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
rare
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites daintreei
Heliolites daintreei tabulate coral
rare
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora emergens
Aulopora emergens tabulate coral
rare
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Tabulophyllum meridionale n. sp.
Tabulophyllum meridionale n. sp. horn coral
rare
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Lyrielasma subcaespitosum, Acanthophyllum sweeti
Lyrielasma subcaespitosum horn coral
L. subcaespitosum praecursor subsp. nov.; occasional
Acanthophyllum sweeti horn coral
rare
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Syringaxon (Barrandeophyllum) sp.
Syringaxon (Barrandeophyllum) sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
occasional
 Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
Tipheophyllum ops n. sp., Tipheophyllum sp.
Tipheophyllum ops n. sp. horn coral
occasional
Tipheophyllum sp. Hill 1956 horn coral
rare
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phillipsastrea maculosa, Thamnophyllum reclinatum
Phillipsastrea maculosa Hill 1942 horn coral
rare
Thamnophyllum reclinatum horn coral
abundant
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma sp.
Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral
T. sp. A; rare
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Anostylostromatidae
Anostylostroma spp. n. sp.
Anostylostroma spp. n. sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge
A. sp. nov. A and A. sp. nov. B (both rare)
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
"Actinostroma intertextum" = Plectostroma intertextum
"Actinostroma intertextum" = Plectostroma intertextum Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
occasional
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora ramosa
Amphipora ramosa Phillips 1841 stromatoporoid sponge
rare
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora foveolata, Stromatopora tenuilacunosa
Stromatopora foveolata stromatoporoid sponge
rare
Stromatopora tenuilacunosa stromatoporoid sponge
rare
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Dendrostroma sp. n. sp., Stromatoporella granulata
Dendrostroma sp. n. sp. Lecompte 1952 stromatoporoid sponge
occasional
Stromatoporella granulata stromatoporoid sponge
rare
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Trupetostroma sp. n. sp.
Trupetostroma sp. n. sp. Parks 1936 stromatoporoid sponge
rare
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
rare
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
Uncinulus sp.
Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878
occasional
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer cf. togatus