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: Roaring Mag Member (Tabberabbera Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)
• Uppermost member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, calcareous siltstone and gray, blue, calcareous claystone
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 75713: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Dolabra cf. unilateralis Sowerby 1840 clam | |
cf. Modiomorpha indet. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Modiomorpha cf. quadrula Hall 1885 clam | |
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites "sp. A" von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hysterolites tritus n. sp.
Hysterolites tritus n. sp. Talent 1963 | |
? Buchanathyris "sp. A" Talent 1956 |