Locality 54, 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 8508: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa ? sp. Stainbrook 1951
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
both cuboidal and non-cuboidal Rhynchonellids
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Isorthis sp. C
 Athyridida - Retziellidae
Molongia sp. n. sp.
Molongia sp. n. sp.
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetidae indet. Bronn 1862
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Notoleptaena sp. n. sp. Gill 1951
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia ? sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
 Strophomenida - Stropheodontidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella ? sp. Lonsdale 1839
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonematidae indet. Koken 1889 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida -
Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
solitary rugose
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites ? sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
cf. Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Clionolithes sp. Clark 1908 demosponge