Also known as Reef 3535
Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.8° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 175.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Elmside Formation, Gedinnine (416.0 - 412.3 Ma)
• mudstone member of the Elmside Fm., algal limestone lens Z5 of Link and Druce, 1972
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone
•Stachyodes as main reef builder,
•20% stromatoporoids, Rothpletzella (5%), Renalcis (5%), Wetheredella (2%) and Graticula-like red algae ( 1%) as encrusters. Stromatolites and Girvanella (1%) present
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: N. Adachi and Y. Ezaki. 2007. Microbial impacts on the genesis of Lower Devonian reefal limestones, eastern Australia. Palaeoworld 16:301-310 [W. Kiessling/E. Jarochowska]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 161458: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Emilia Jarochowska on 05.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Renalcis | |
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Rothpletzella | |
Rothpletzella sp. Wood 1948 | |
Florideophyceae | |
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema |