Loc. 86. Warrigal Bend, Mitchell River National Park (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 147.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° S, 175.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kilgower Member (Tabberabbera Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Middle part of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, calcareous siltstone and calcareous claystone

• clayey silstones, silty claystones, claystones and fine-grained calcaerous sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "The rich shelly fauna of the Tabberabbera Formation is mostly confined to the Kilgower Sandstone Member."

Primary reference: J. A. Talent. 1963. The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 24:1-118 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75695: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea "gen and sp. indet. A" Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
"Straparollus (Straparollus) serpenteus" = Bassotrochus serpenteus
"Straparollus (Straparollus) serpenteus" = Bassotrochus serpenteus Talent 1963 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Tropidodiscus "sp. A" Meek and Worthen 1866 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema cf. australis Chapman 1916 snail
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta placita Talent 1963 clam
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ptychopteria vespertilio n. sp. Talent 1963 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Septalariidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella textilis Talent 1963
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa cf. reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites exaltatus n. sp. Talent 1963
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Hexactinellida
 Lyssacinosa - Stiodermatidae
Hyalostelia sp. glass sponge