Loc. 56. Mitchell River National Park (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Australia (37.8° S, 147.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° S, 175.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kilgower Member (Tabberabbera Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Pragian call based on possibility (attributed to Strusz et al.) that the shelly fauna listed here is intermediate in age between Yeringian Cave Hill Formation and Buchanian Buchan Group.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone

• arenaceous sandstone

Collection methods: "The rich shelly fauna of the Tabberabbera Formation is mostly confined to the Kilgower Sandstone Member."

Primary reference: J. A. Talent. 1963. The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 24:1-118 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75686: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria "sp. B" Hall 1884 oyster
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
? Nuculana aff. rostellata Conrad 1841 pointed nut clam
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
? Chonetes "sp. A" Fischer de Waldheim 1830
? Chonetes suavis n. sp. Talent 1963
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
? Hysterolites pinguis n. sp. Talent 1963