Also known as Illaenus Band, Wapentake Formation, Heathcote District, Victoria, Australia

Where: Victoria, Australia (34.1° S, 151.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 174.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pterospathodus amorphognathoides amorphognathoides conodont zone, Costerfield Siltstone Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Originally given as Illaenus Band of Wapentake and as Llandovery. The Wapentake is now thought to be Sheinwoodian, but the Illaenus Band now is put in the Telychian Costerfield Siltstone (PJW).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Talent. 1965. The Silurian and Early Devonian Faunas of the Heathcote District, Victoria. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 26:1-55 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8028: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.06.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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