Locality 25, Mount Ida Formation, Redcastle District, Victoria, Australia (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (36.8° S, 144.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.4° S, 173.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Unit 3 Member (Mount Ida Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; conglomeratic sandstone

• coarse, leached 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 8503: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Clionolithes sp. Clark 1908 demosponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
both solitary and compound rugose corals
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites ? sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp. n. sp.
Otarion sp. n. sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
Otarion? n. sp.
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanitidae indet. Vogdes 1890 trilobite
Dalmanitidae gen. indet. B
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Velibeyrichia ? sp. Henningsmoen 1954 ostracod
Bivalvia
  -
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo ? sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
cf. Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria ? sp. Hall 1884 oyster
 Cardiida -
Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonematidae indet. Koken 1889 snail
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella ? sp. Lonsdale 1839
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetidae indet. Bronn 1862
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
Maoristrophia sp. Allan 1947
 Strophomenida - Stropheodontidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta limbimura n. sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta limbimura n. sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Retziellidae
Molongia sp. n. sp.
Molongia sp. n. sp.
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Isorthis sp. B
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
both cuboidal and non-cuboidal rhynchonellids
 Rhynchonellida -
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914
 Protremata -
Dalmanellacea indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1931