Locality 16, Mount Ida Formation, Heathcote District, Victoria, Australia (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (34.1° S, 151.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° S, 176.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 2 Member (Mount Ida Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomeratic sandstone

• leached coarse sandstone, at times conglomeratic

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 8481: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp.
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet.
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
cuboidal rhychonellids
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina sp. n. sp.
Salopina sp. n. sp. Boucot 1960
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha ? sp.
Modiomorpha ? sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Trigoniida - Eoschizodidae
Eoschizodus ? sp.
Eoschizodus ? sp. Cox 1951 clam