Elimberrie bioherm, Oscar Range (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3897

Where: Western Australia, Australia (17.7° S, 125.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 117.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Napier Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• latest Frasnian-Early Famennian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified limestone

• relatively deep fore-reef-slope setting
• large stromatolite-sponge bioherms, up to 100 m thick and 1 km in diameter

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby. 1986. Late Devonian sponges of Western Australia. Report of the Geological Survey of Western Australia 18:1-59 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84828: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Pillaraspongiidae
Pillaraspongia ellimberia
Pillaraspongia ellimberia Rigby 1986 glass sponge
 Amphidiscosa - Pelicaspongiidae
Pelicaspongia cupula
Pelicaspongia cupula Rigby 1986 glass sponge