Opposite Mount Krauss, Kimberley District (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.3° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 127.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Devonian(?) according to paper but coral species have been described from the Frasnian in later papers.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Edward T. Hardman in 1883; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: G. J. Hinde. 1890. Notes on the palaeontology of Western Australia 2. Corals and Polyzoa. The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade III 7:194-204 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131546: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Pachypora tumida n. sp. Hinde 1890 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora repens Knorr and Walch 1775 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum depressum n. sp. Hinde 1890 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
"Cyathophyllum virgatum n. sp." = Disphyllum virgatum
"Cyathophyllum virgatum n. sp." = Disphyllum virgatum Hinde 1890 horn coral