Locality 3 and 3A, Mount Ida Formation, Dargile District, Victoria, Australia (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.0° S, 144.0° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 173.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 3 Member (Mount Ida Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomeratic sandstone

• leached coarse sandstone, at times conglomeratic

Primary reference: J. A. Talent. 1965. The Silurian and Early Devonian Faunas of the Heathcote District, Victoria. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 26:1-55 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8498: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Stropheodontidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia ? sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
non-cuboidal rhynchonellids
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonematidae indet. Koken 1889 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Bivalvia
  -
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Anulipecten ? sp. Ruzicka et al. 1959 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria ? sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
 Trigoniida - Eoschizodidae
Eoschizodus ? sp. Cox 1951 clam
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Trimerus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
 Protremata -
Dalmanellacea indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1931