PBDB Collection

Locality 43, Boola Beds, north of Tyers Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria (Silurian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 175.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Boola Beds Formation, Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous mudstone

• thick, uniform mudstone series, grey-green, the top 100 ft. are fossiliferous, and may become calcareous and strongly cemented with carbonate, approaching an impure limestone

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 10187: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 05.03.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
Stauriida - Laccophyllidae	Syringaxon (Syringaxon) sp. Syringaxon (Syringaxon) sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral rare
Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae	Streptelasma spp. Streptelasma spp. Hall 1847 horn coral abundant
Favositida - Micheliniidae	Pleurodictyum megastoma Pleurodictyum megastoma tabulate coral rare
Favositida - Favositidae	Favosites forbesi, Favosites coactilis Favosites forbesi tabulate coral rare Favosites coactilis tabulate coral rare
Favositida - Coenitidae	Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica tabulate coral rare
Heliolitida - Plasmoporidae	Plasmopora gippslandica Plasmopora gippslandica tabulate coral rare
Rhynchonellata
Atrypida - Lissatrypidae	Lissatrypa lenticulata Lissatrypa lenticulata common
Pentamerida - Gypidulidae	Gypidula victoriae Gypidula victoriae rare
Athyridida - Nucleospiridae	Nucleospira sp. Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 rare
Athyridida - Meristellidae	Meristella sp. Meristella sp. rare
Orthida - Dalmanellidae	Onniella tyersensis Onniella tyersensis Philip 1962 common
Spiriferida -	Notanoplia sp. Notanoplia sp. Gill 1950 abundant
Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae	Eospirifer togatus Eospirifer togatus rare
Spiriferida - Delthyrididae	Delthyris (Howellella) scabra Delthyris (Howellella) scabra rare
Strophomenata
Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae	Plectodonta bipartita Plectodonta bipartita Chapman 1913 abundant
Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae	Leptostrophia affinalata Leptostrophia affinalata Gill 1949 questionable occurrence
Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae	Notoleptaena otophera Notoleptaena otophera occasional
Strophomenida - Chonetidae	Chonetes cresswelli Chonetes cresswelli occasional
Bivalvia
Nuculanida - Cucullellidae	Nuculites sp. Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam rare
Solemyida - Ctenodontidae	Ctenodonta melbournensis, Ctenodonta victoriae Ctenodonta melbournensis clam rare Ctenodonta victoriae Chapman 1908 clam occasional
Trilobita
Phacopida - Cheiruridae	"Cheirurus (Crotalocephalus) silverdalensis" = Crotalocephalus silverdalensis "Cheirurus (Crotalocephalus) silverdalensis" = Crotalocephalus silverdalensis Etheridge and Mitchell 1917 trilobite occasional
Phacopida - Calymenidae	"Gravicalymene angustior" = Calymene (Gravicalymene) angustior "Gravicalymene angustior" = Calymene (Gravicalymene) angustior Chapman 1915 trilobite rare
Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae	Leonaspis bispinosa Leonaspis bispinosa trilobite common