Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.0° S, 125.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 24.6° S, 117.6° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Virgin Hills Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)
• Ammonoid Stufe II-beta.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; red limestone and calcareous siltstone
Collection methods: Combined Ta through Tn. Author gives specimen counts.
Primary reference: M. S. Petersen. 1975. Upper Devonian (Famennian) ammonoids from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Paleontological Society Memoir 8:1-55 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65103: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 18.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) sp., Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) latilobatum, Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) biferum
Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) latilobatum Schindewolf 1923 ammonite
Sporadoceras (Sporadoceras) biferum Phillips 1841 ammonite | |
Paratornoceras lentiforme Sandberger 1857 ammonite |