Napier Formation Stromatoporoids, Canning Basin (Devonian of Australia)
Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.0° S, 125.5° E: paleocoordinates 19.0° S, 126.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Napier Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks
• fore-reef and reefal slope sub-facies of reef complex
Primary reference: A. E. Cockbain. 1984. Stromatoporoids from the Devonian reef complexes, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 129:1-108 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39240: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 24.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• only stromatoporoids reported
Show authors, comments, and common names
Stromatoporoidea | |
Hermatostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge |