Gascoyne River, Devonian (BMNH collection) (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (25.2° S, 115.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 119.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Devonian(?)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Harry Woodward; 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 131547: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora patula n. sp. Hinde 1890 tabulate coral
"Not known whether Devonian or Carboniferous" - should be Devonian
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum depressum Hinde 1890 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stromatoporella eifeliensis stromatoporoid sponge
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
""Spirorbis" omphalodes" = Spirorbis omphalotes
""Spirorbis" omphalodes" = Spirorbis omphalotes Goldfuss 1836