Bell Point, Cape Liptrap Peninsula, 150 kilometers south-east of Melbourne (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.9° S, 145.9° E: paleocoordinates 21.7° S, 173.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bell Point Limestone Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Well-bedded muddy limestone within which minor amounts of lighter grey limestone and black shale occur. Shallow water deposit.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: National Museum of Victoria

Primary reference: C. B. Tassell. 1978. Gastropods from the Early Devonian Bell Point Limestone, Cape Liptrap Penninsula, Victoria. Memoirs of the Natural History Museum, Victoria 39(1):19-32 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49108: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 09.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Tropidodiscus waratahensis n. sp.
Tropidodiscus waratahensis n. sp. Tassell 1978 snail
type locality
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
"Murchisonia (Hormotomina) sp." = Hormotomina
"Murchisonia (Hormotomina) sp." = Hormotomina Grabau and Shimer 1909 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) "sp. A", Murchisonia (Murchisonia) "sp. B", "Murchisonia (Murchisonia) bassensis" = Murchisonia bassensis
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) "sp. A" d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) "sp. B" d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
"Murchisonia (Murchisonia) bassensis" = Murchisonia bassensis Tassell 1978 snail
type locality
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
? Mourlonia sp.
? Mourlonia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail
Stenoloron
 Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
Orecopia murrayi n. sp., Bassotrochus angulatus n. gen. n. sp.
Orecopia murrayi n. sp. Tassell 1978 snail
type locality
Bassotrochus angulatus n. gen. n. sp. Tassell 1978 snail
type locality
 Euomphalina -
"Gyronema bellense n. sp." = Kitikamispira bellense
"Gyronema bellense n. sp." = Kitikamispira bellense Tassell 1978 snail
type locality; Kitikamispira
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Micromphalus clarkei" = Pseudomphalotrochus clarkei, "Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus
"Micromphalus clarkei" = Pseudomphalotrochus clarkei de Koninck 1876 snail
Pseudomphalotrochus
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus Sowerby 1814 snail
probably Amphelissa isisensis