Brachiopods of Maoristrophia keblei Subcommunity, Humevale Fm., Gill's loc. 13 (Devonian to of Australia)

Also known as Maoristrophia Community, Type 1, mud facies, Gill's locality 13

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 145.3° E: paleocoordinates 18.4° S, 173.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Humevale Formation, Helderbergian to Helderbergian (419.2 - 407.6 Ma)

• Humevale said to be Lower Devonian; Community said to range from Wenlock to early Pragian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• "In the Humevale Formation around Lilydale, themud facies subcommunity is in a thick, shallowing upwards sequence which starts with the Zoophycos Community and passes up through and Odontochile formosa Comm. and Garratt's Notanoplia Comm. (BA 5) into the Maoristrophia Comm. Above that is [BA 3 and BA 2-3]." Mud facies assigned to BA 4.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Table 14.3 gives specimen counts.

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 25651: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods only.
unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
"Hipparionyx minor" = Hipparionix
"Hipparionyx minor" = Hipparionix
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula sp. n. sp.
Gypidula sp. n. sp. Hall 1867
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
species name in quotes
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. n. sp.
Cyrtina sp. n. sp. Davidson 1858
 Spiriferida -
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Hysterolites lilydalensis
genus name in quotes
 Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
Acrospiriferidae indet. Termier and Termier 1949
n. gen.
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
"Cyrtinopsis cooperi" = Megakozlowskiella cooperi
"Cyrtinopsis cooperi" = Megakozlowskiella cooperi Gill 1952
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp. n. sp. Hall 1859