Where: Victoria, Australia (37.5° S, 148.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° S, 164.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairy Formation, Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; tuffaceous sandstone and tuffaceous, muddy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

• Included: lateral rostral bone, premaxilla and isolated small elements assumed to be rostral bones of snout complex

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, acetic

• The associated biota includes an abundance of conchostracans (Tasch, 1987), fish remains (including Bukkanodus jesseni), ostracods, rare gastropods, charophytes, coprolites, and occasional plant remains from a lenticular body of about 33 m.

Primary reference: Z. Johanson, J. A. Long, J. A. Talent, P. Janvier, and J. W. Warren. 2007. New onychodontiform (Osteichthyes; Sarcopterygii) from the Lower Devonian of Victoria, Australia. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):1031-1053 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136138: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 20.11.2012

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