Locality 2 and 2A, 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

• coarse, leached 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 8501: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Anulipecten ? sp. Ruzicka et al. 1959 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria ? sp. Hall 1884 oyster
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"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia ? sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
non-cuboidal rhynchonellids
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella ? sp. Lonsdale 1839
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Trimerus sp. Green 1832 trilobite