Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.5° S, 126.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 131.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gogo Formation, Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)
• Ponticeras discoidale regional zone, starting at 5.5 m above base of measured section 365.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. T. Becker, M. R. House, and W. T. Kirchgasser. 1993. Devonian goniatite biostratigraphy and timing of facies movements in the Frasnian of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. In E. A. Hailwood, R. B. Kidd (eds.), High Resolution Stratigraphy 70:293-321 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39046: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Aulatornoceras "sp. B" Schindewolf 1922 ammonite | |
Acanthoclymenia sp. n. sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Ponticeras discoidale Glenister 1958 ammonite | |
Manticoceras spp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Bactritidae indet. Hyatt 1884 |