PBDB Collection

Receptaculites Limestone, Taemas, 20 kilometers southwest of Yass (Devonian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.8° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 173.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Receptaculites limestone Member (Taemas Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• No comments provided

• Tassell provides no description of the lithology.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

• Most specimens at ANU Geology dept. collections; some at Australian Museum and the National Museum of Victoria

Primary reference: C. B. Tassell. 1982. Gastropods from the Early Devonian "Receptaculites" Limestone, Taemas, New South Wales. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 77:1-59 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43890: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae	Ptychosphaera convolutus n. sp., Retispira retifera Ptychosphaera convolutus n. sp. de Koninck 1876 snail Retispira retifera Talent 1963 snail
Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae	"Tropidodiscus centrifugus" = Tropidodiscus centrifugulus "Tropidodiscus centrifugus" = Tropidodiscus centrifugulus Chapman 1916 snail
Murchisoniina - Cheeneetnukiidae	"Stegocoelia (Stegocoelia) bononi n. sp." = Ulungaratoconcha bononi "Stegocoelia (Stegocoelia) bononi n. sp." = Ulungaratoconcha bononi Tassell 1982 snail
Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae	Mesocoelia quarki n. sp., "Murchisonia (Ostioma) bloomfieldia n. sp." = Ostioma bloomfieldia, "Murchisonia (Murchisonia) turris" = Murchisonia turris Mesocoelia quarki n. sp. Tassell 1982 snail "Murchisonia (Ostioma) bloomfieldia n. sp." = Ostioma bloomfieldia Tassell 1980 snail "Murchisonia (Murchisonia) turris" = Murchisonia turris de Koninck 1876 snail
Murchisoniina - Trochonematidae	? Globonema sp. ? Globonema sp. Wenz 1938 snail
Murchisoniina - Scoliostomatidae	Mitchellia striatula Mitchellia striatula de Koninck 1876 snail
Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae	Palaeozygopleura muoni n. sp. Palaeozygopleura muoni n. sp. Tassell 1982 snail
Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae	"Mourlonia subglobosa n. sp." = Stenoloron subglobosa "Mourlonia subglobosa n. sp." = Stenoloron subglobosa Tassell 1982 snail
Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae	"? Arizonella conoidea n. sp." = Denayella conoidea, Bembexia sp., Bembexia micula n. sp. "? Arizonella conoidea n. sp." = Denayella conoidea Tassell 1982 snail Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail might actually be Bembexia Bembexia micula n. sp. Tassell 1982 snail
Murchisoniina - Porcelliidae	Hesperiella sp., "Oehlertia pioni n. sp." = Quadricarina pioni Hesperiella sp. Holzapfel 1889 snail "Oehlertia pioni n. sp." = Quadricarina pioni Tassell 1982 snail
Euomphalina - Platyceratidae	Platyceras (Platyceras) "sp. B" Platyceras (Platyceras) "sp. B" Conrad 1840 snail
Euomphalina - Tychobraheidae	"Holopea protoni n. sp." = Asinomphalus protoni "Holopea protoni n. sp." = Asinomphalus protoni Tassell 1982 snail
Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae	Taemasotrochus giganticus Taemasotrochus giganticus Tassell 1982 snail
Euomphalina -	"? Straparollus (Serpulospira) indet." = Serpulospira "? Straparollus (Serpulospira) indet." = Serpulospira Cossmann 1915 snail sp. indet.
Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae	"Hemizyga (Hyphantozyga) granifera" = Hyphantozyga granifera "Hemizyga (Hyphantozyga) granifera" = Hyphantozyga granifera de Koninck 1876 snail
Rostroconchia
Conocardiida - Conocardiidae	Conocardium aff. sowerbyi Conocardium aff. sowerbyi de Koninck 1876