Mt. Pierre, reef slope (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3899

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.3° S, 125.9° E: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 118.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Virgin Hills Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Upper Frasnian-Lower Famennian, most of the formation is Lower Famennian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• marginal reef slope
• marly limestone, sponges as transported fragments

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 84831: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Streptosolenidae
Aulocopoides patulum, Aulocopoides teicherti
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Australospongia turbinata, Australospongia cylindrica, ? Playfordiella sp.
? Playfordiella sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Pillaraspongiidae
Pillaraspongia ellimberia
Pillaraspongia ellimberia Rigby 1986 glass sponge
 Amphidiscosa - Pelicaspongiidae
Pelicaspongia cupula
Pelicaspongia cupula Rigby 1986 glass sponge