Locality 7, southwest of Boola Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 163.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coopers Creek Limestone Formation, Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone

• ranges from a typical gray limestone through into conglomeratic rocks or even silty, impure limestones; well-bedded towards the base, massive at higher horizons, in general, a coarse calcarenite made up essentially of comminuted bioclastic debris, mainly corals, stromatoporoids, and to a lesser degree, algae; in the boola quarry, the rock approaches more a calcilutite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. M. Philip. 1962. The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 75(n.s.):123-246 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10123: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Trapezophyllum elegantulum
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites forbesi, Favosites hillae n. sp., "Favosites squamuliferus" = Squameofavosites squamuliferus
Favosites forbesi tabulate coral
occasional
Favosites hillae n. sp. tabulate coral
rare
"Favosites squamuliferus" = Squameofavosites squamuliferus Etheridge 1899 tabulate coral
F. squamuliferus forma bryani and F. sqaum. forma nitidus; rare and occasional, respectively
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites daintreei
Heliolites daintreei tabulate coral
rare