Loc. 20. Warrigal Bend, Mitchell River National Park (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, 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)

• Middle part of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, calcareous siltstone and calcareous claystone

• clayey silstones, silty claystones, claystones and fine-grained calcaerous sediments

Size class: macrofossils

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75699: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Nargunella nitida Talent 1963 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
"Cyrtina gregale" = Cyrtina (Cyrtina) heteroclyta gregale Talent 1963