Where: Gippsland, Australia (37.5° S, 148.2° E: paleocoordinates 19.6° S, 174.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Buchan Group, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)
• "600 feet above top of Cave limestone", now known as Buchan Caves Limestone, see
•http://dbforms.ga.gov.au/pls/www/geodx.strat_units.sch_full?wher=stratno=2750, probably Murrindal limestone Formation
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. Teichert and B. F. Glenister. 1952. Fossil Nautiloid Faunas from Australia. Journal of Paleontology 26(5):730-752 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188955: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 22.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Buchanoceras graviventrum Teichert and Glenister 1952 |