Basal Mandagery Park Formation, Manildra, New South Wales (Devonian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.2° S, 148.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.4° S, 174.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mandagery Park Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Base of the Mandagery Park Formation, "late Lower Gedinnian".

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Boucot (PBDB ref. 6948, p. 569) assigns Quarithyris Community to BA 3. Savage interprets the base of this formation as shallower than underlying Maradana Shale, and the sequence becomes shallower still (near shoreline) higher up in the Mandagery Park Formation. Cowra Trough.
• "This formation consists largely of interbedded limestone and tuffceous sandstone with occasional thin shale bands...Silicified brachiopod and conodont fauna from the basal limestone."

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: The brachiopods were categorized as the Quadrithyris Community by Savage and also by Boucot (1999, p. 569) (PBDB ref. 6948). Savage gives abundances at the genus level.

Primary reference: N. M. Savage. 1974. The brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Maradana Shale, New South Wales. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 146(1-3):1-51 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24900: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paltodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
  -
Trichonodella inconstans Ziegler 1960 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
"Spathognathodus remscheidensis" = Ozarkodina remscheidensis remscheidensis, "Ozarkodina denckmanni" = Ozarkodina, "Plectospathodus aff. alternatus" = Ozarkodina, "Plectospathodus sp." = Ozarkodina, Plectospathodus extensus, "Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina, Hindeodella equidentata, Ozarkodina media
"Spathognathodus remscheidensis" = Ozarkodina remscheidensis remscheidensis Ziegler 1960 conodont
"Ozarkodina denckmanni" = Ozarkodina conodont
"Plectospathodus aff. alternatus" = Ozarkodina conodont
"Plectospathodus sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Plectospathodus extensus Rhodes 1953 conodont
"Hindeodella sp." = Ozarkodina Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Hindeodella equidentata Rhodes 1953 conodont
Ozarkodina media Walliser 1957 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
"Neoprioniodus excavatus" = Wurmiella excavata, "Spathognathodus inclinatus" = Wurmiella excavata
"Neoprioniodus excavatus" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
"Spathognathodus inclinatus" = Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Prioniodinidae
"Neoprioniodus sp." = Idioprioniodus
"Neoprioniodus sp." = Idioprioniodus Gunnell 1933 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Lonchodina walliseri Ziegler 1960 conodont
Lonchodina greilingi Walliser 1957 conodont
 Prioniodontida -
"Trichonodella excavata" = Oulodus walliseri, "Ligonodina aff. salopia" = Oulodus, "Ligonodina sp." = Oulodus
"Trichonodella excavata" = Oulodus walliseri Ziegler 1960 conodont
"Ligonodina aff. salopia" = Oulodus conodont
"Ligonodina sp." = Oulodus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus unicostatus Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Belodella resima Philip 1965 conodont
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Anastrophia magnifica Kozlowski 1929
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
"Proreticularia beddiei" = Alaskospira
"Proreticularia beddiei" = Alaskospira
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
subsp. inversa
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
"Ogilviella prolifica n. sp." = Rhynchogilviella prolifica Savage 1970
 Atrypida - Glassiidae
"Cryptatrypa cf. philomela" = Glassia
"Cryptatrypa cf. philomela" = Glassia
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
 Orthida - Platyorthidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis festiva Philip 1962
 Orthida - Mystrophoridae
 Terebratulida - Meganterididae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena cf. goldfussiana" = Leptagonia goldfussiana
"Leptaena cf. goldfussiana" = Leptagonia goldfussiana Barrande 1848
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae