Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 175.8° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Yarwood Siltstone Member (Black Bog Formation), Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous siltstone and calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Abundances of trilobites and brachiopods for four localities given in table 14.1 These taxa, plus others mentioned in text, are included in faunal list.
Primary reference: D. L. Strusz and M. J. Garratt. 1999. Australian communities. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 177-199 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25634: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Kitakamiia sp. Sugiyama 1940 tabulate coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Zenophilia walli horn coral | |
Tryplasma ? derrengullense horn coral | |
Phaulactis shearsbyi horn coral | |
Mucophyllum sp. Etheridge 1894 horn coral | |
Idiophyllum patulum horn coral | |
Conodonta | |
Conodonta indet. conodont | |
Pterobranchia | |
Dendroidea indet. Nicholson 1872 graptolite | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Spirinella ? caecistriata Johnston 1941 | |
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Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Atrypoidea sp. Mitchell and Dun 1920 | |
? Gracianella sp. Johnson and Boucot 1967
Spirigerina marginalis Dalman 1828 | |
? Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914 | |
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? Isorthis (? Protocortezorthis) sp. Walmsley and Boucot 1975 | |
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Strophomenata | |
Chonetidae indet. Bronn 1862 | |
? Strophochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
"Aegiria minuta" = Epelidoaegiria minuta
"Aegiria minuta" = Epelidoaegiria minuta Mitchell 1923 | |
Maoristrophia sp. Allan 1947 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Craniata | |
Craniops sp. Hall 1859 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Ostracoda | |
Platycopida indet. Sars 1866 ostracod
Podocopida indet. Sars 1866 ostracod | |
Beyrichiacea indet. Matthew 1886 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Dudleyaspis bowningensis trilobite | |
Kosovopeltis jenkinsi trilobite
Australoscutellum longospinifex trilobite | |
"Apocalymene sp." = Gravicalymene, Sthenarocalymene australis
"Apocalymene sp." = Gravicalymene Shirley 1936 trilobite
Sthenarocalymene australis trilobite | |
"Batocara bowningi" = Batocara trilobite
"Pacificurus sp." = Batocara Strusz 1980 trilobite
Staurocephalus mitchelli trilobite | |
Sphaerexochus ? lorum trilobite
Crotalocephalus silverdalensis trilobite | |
Prantlia yassensis Etheridge and Mitchell 1892 trilobite | |
Decoroproetus australis trilobite | |
Scharyia ritchiei trilobite | |
Otarion horani Etheridge and Mitchell 1893 trilobite | |
Scotoharpes trinucleoides Etheridge and Mitchell 1917 trilobite |