Fork of the Howqua River at the base of Mt Howitt (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Mt. Howitt Fish Fossil Site

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.2° S, 146.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 160.4° E)

When: Bindaree Formation (Wellington Volcanic Group), Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Usually given as Avon River group, but that is outdated. Although the papers never state it, Australia's Fossil Heritage notes that it is part of the Bindaree Formation. Also, it is now dated as Late Givetian, not Middle Givetian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; limestone

• The depositionalenvironment has been interpreted as part of an intramontane basinal setting in which lakes were periodically formed by damming of the high energy drainage system by acid lava flows and ignimbritic eruptions (Long 1982).
• Finely-laminated black lacustrine shales.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. A. Long. 1999. A new genus of fossil coelacanth (Osteichthyes: Coelacanthiformes) from the Middle Devonian of southeastern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57:37-53 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173457: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Miguashaiidae
Gavinia syntrips n. gen. n. sp.
Gavinia syntrips n. gen. n. sp. Long 1999 coelacanth