DMM Quarry, Attunga, New South Wales, Australia (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 2312

Where: New South Wales, Australia (30.9° S, 150.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 164.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moore Creek Limestone Member, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

• Stromatoporoid bioherm of 6-18 m thickness

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: S.M.L. Pohler. 1998. Devonian carbonate buildup facies in an intra-oceanic island arc (Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia). Facies 39:1-34 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24211: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge