Locality 35, Graptolite Beds, Dargile Formation (Silurian of Australia)

Also known as Locality 35, Dargile Formation, Heathcote District, Victoria, Australia

Where: Victoria, Australia (34.1° S, 151.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.9° N, 176.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus nilssoni graptolite zone, Yan Yean Formation (Dargile Group), Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)

• Graptolite Beds (Unit 2)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• no specific lithology was given but the unit is bounded by mudstones below and conglomeritic sandstones above; the entire monograph discusses a siliciclastic package of strata

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 8029: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
cf. Anaspyroceras sp.
cf. Anaspyroceras sp. Shimizu and Obata 1935
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanitidae indet.
Dalmanitidae indet. Vogdes 1890 trilobite
Dalmanitidae gen. A