Chatterton Loc. Delta, top of Receptaculites Lst and base of Warroo Lst (Devonian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.9° S, 148.8° E: paleocoordinates 17.1° S, 173.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Taemas Formation (Murrumbidgee Group), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Top of Receptaculites Lst and base of Warroo Lst

• formation-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." "The Warroo Lst...range[s] from micrite to packed biomicrite.."

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 39888: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Focus of monograph is on brachiopods.
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Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Craniops australis n. sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
"Pugnax" oepiki n. sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Glossinotoechiidae
Eoglossinotoechia linki n. sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Browneella browneae n. gen. n. sp.
Browneella browneae n. gen. n. sp.
 Terebratulida - Meganterididae
Adrenia cernua n. sp., ? Micidus glaber n. sp., Micidus shandkyddi n. sp.
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa penelopeae n. sp.
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Aulacella stoermeri n. sp.
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Hysterolites sp.
Hysterolites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella aff. textilis, Delthyris hudsoni n. sp.
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambothyris runnegari n. sp.
 Spiriferida - Echinospiriferidae
Howittia howitti, Howittia multiplicata
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes latus n. sp.
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Cymostrophia dickinsi n. sp., Malurostrophia aura n. sp., Malurostrophia bella n. sp.
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia clarkei n. sp.
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella murphyi n. sp.
 Productida - Productellidae
Spinulicosta campbelli n. sp.