Also known as Limestone Road/ Lower Plant Assemblage
Where: Victoria, Australia (37.2° S, 145.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 174.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: graptolites zone, Yea Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• The plant bearing strata is near the top of the Yea Formation, and occurs immediately below the Rice Hill Sandstone member. It occurrs approx. 1700m below the Upper Plant Assemblage.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: J. D. Tims and T. C. Chambers. 1984. Rhyniophytina and Trimerophytina from the Early Land Flora of Victoria, Australia. Palaeontology 27(pt. 2):265-279 [P. Gensel/A. Tuell/A. Tuell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20754: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 06.06.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Pterobranchia | |
"Pristiograptus dubius" = Pristiograptus, "Bohemograptus sp." = Pristiograptus
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Hyolitha | |
"Hyolithes" indet. d'Eichwald 1840 | |
Strophomenata | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Hedeia | |
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Zosterophyllopsida | |
Zosterophyllales indet. Bierhorst 1971 |