Chatterton Loc. B, lower half of Receptaculites Lst, near Yass, NSW (Devonian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.0° S, 148.8° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 173.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 'Receptaculites' Limestone Member (Taemas Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lime mudstone and shelly/skeletal grainstone

• Generally shallow tropical interpretation.
• "The 'Receptaculites' Lst consists of a series of well-bedded to massive ilmestones that are predominantly sparse or packed biomicrites, but range from micrite to sorted biosparite."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: B. D. E. Chatterton. 1973. Brachiopods of the Murrumbidgee Group, Taemas, New South Wales. Bulletin, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics of Australia 137:1-146 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39887: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.06.2004, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• Focus of monograph is on brachiopods.
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Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Craniops australis n. sp.
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella murphyi n. sp.
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Parachonetes konincki n. sp.
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Cymostrophia dickinsi, Cymostrophia multicostella n. sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Hysterolites sp.
Hysterolites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella aff. textilis
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
Quadrithyrina sp.
Quadrithyrina sp. Havlicek 1959
 Spiriferida - Echinospiriferidae
Howittia howitti, Howittia multiplicata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa penelopeae n. sp., Anatrypa erectirostris
 Terebratulida - Meganterididae
"Cymidia parva n. sp." = Cydimia, "Cymidia robertsi n. gen. n. sp." = Cydimia, Adrenia expansa n. gen. n. sp., Micidus shandkyddi n. gen. n. sp.
"Cymidia parva n. sp." = Cydimia
"Cymidia robertsi n. gen. n. sp." = Cydimia
Adrenia expansa n. gen. n. sp.
Micidus shandkyddi n. gen. n. sp.
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina kemezysi n. sp.
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
"Loxonema altacostatum n. sp." = Hornyzyga altacostatum
"Loxonema altacostatum n. sp." = Hornyzyga altacostatum Tassell 1982 snail
type locality
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Leptoptygma australe n. sp." = Decorochilina australe, "Ianthinopsis ornatus n. sp." = Decorochilina australe
"Leptoptygma australe n. sp." = Decorochilina australe Tassell 1982 snail
type locality
"Ianthinopsis ornatus n. sp." = Decorochilina australe Tassell 1982 snail
type locality
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras (Platyceras) "sp. A"
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
"Naticopsis (Naticopsis) taemasensis n. sp." = Naticopsis taemasensis
"Naticopsis (Naticopsis) taemasensis n. sp." = Naticopsis taemasensis Tassell 1982 snail
type locality