Where: Australian Capital Territory, Australia (34.8° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 175.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Hume Limestone Member (Silverdale Formation), Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal grainstone and shelly/skeletal, silty lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Community is broad and present in several formations; I have attempted to limit list to Hume limestone elements.
Primary reference: D. L. Strusz and M. J. Garratt. 1999. Australian communities. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 177-199 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25642: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Favosites allani tabulate coral
Favosites regularis tabulate coral
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Heliolites daintreei tabulate coral | |
Pseudoplasmopora gippslandica tabulate coral | |
Entelophyllum yassense horn coral | |
Zenophila walli horn coral | |
Phaulactis shearsbyi horn coral | |
Toquimaphyllum spongophylloides horn coral | |
Mucophyllum crateroides horn coral | |
Aphyllum lonsdalei horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Clathrodictyon tenuis stromatoporoid sponge
Clathrodictyon delicatulum Nestor 1964 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anostylostroma conjugatum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Actinodictyon keelei stromatoporoid sponge | |
Pycnodictyon densum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Plumatalinia balticivaga stromatoporoid sponge
Plumatalinia densa stromatoporoid sponge | |
Parallelostroma maestermyrense stromatoporoid sponge | |
"Diplostroma yavorskyi" = Simplexodictyon
"Diplostroma yavorskyi" = Simplexodictyon stromatoporoid sponge | |
Rosenella dentata Rosen 1867 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
"Pacificurus sp." = Batocara
"Pacificurus sp." = Batocara Strusz 1980 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta spp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
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Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
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