Garra Formation Corals 3 (Devonian to of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 174.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Garra Formation, Lochkovian to Lochkovian (419.2 - 407.6 Ma)

• Strusz interprets age as Emsian. More recent work (e.g., PBDB refs. 7152, 7167-7170) argue for age range of Lochkovian to Pragian, based mainly on conodonts.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; grainstone and calcareous shale

• From Lenz and Johnson, ref. 7167: "The Garra limestones are the product of relatively shallow water deposition; the lower approximately one-third of the formation represents a progressive transgressive sequence, the middle portion is the product of still-sand and gradual infilling, and the upper one-third represents progressive shallowing to supratidal conditions."
• From Strusz (1965, PBDB ref. 7170): "The two dominant lithologies are calcareous shale and detrital limestones. These are interspersed with reef-type deposits, which range from two or three rather large bioherms down to thin biostromes built by laminar stromatoporoids. The detrital limestones include all types, but are predominantly fossiliferous calcarenites, which are frequently thinly interbedded with calcareous to noncalcareous shale. In some areas there are extensive outcrops of algal limestones and pellet or oolite calcarenites; these are generally only sparsely fossiliferous." See PBDB collections 25695-25697.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: More detailed locality information given by Strusz.

Primary reference: D. L. Strusz. 1967. Chlamydophyllum, Iowaphyllum, and Sinospongophyllum (Rugosa) from the Devonian of New South Wales. Palaeontology 10(3):426-435 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25701: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 23.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Selected corals only.
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Kodonophyllidae
Chlamydophyllum minus
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
"Sinospongophyllum abrogatum" = Tabulophyllum
"Sinospongophyllum abrogatum" = Tabulophyllum horn coral
Abstract says species is S. tabulatum, but systematic paleontology section says S. abrogatum.
 Stauriida - Endophyllidae
Iowaphyllum cabonnense