UQL 6477 Home Range (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 2475

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.5° S, 125.9° E: paleocoordinates 18.0° S, 133.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pillara Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Middle-Upper Givetian, Careophyllum-Grypophyllum fauna

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• several coral mounds, collection from between the mounds

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UQ

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: R. L. S. Brownlaw and J. S. Jell. 2008. Middle and Upper Devonian rugose corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 35:1-126 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92853: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Grypophyllum benbowi
Grypophyllum benbowi Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Careophyllum brevilamellatum
Careophyllum brevilamellatum Hill 1936 horn coral
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Chostophyllum apertum n. sp., Temnophyllum "sp. A", ? Temnophyllum "sp. B", Temnophyllum "sp. D", Temnophyllum turbinatum, Temnophyllum cf. turbinatum, ? Spinophyllum "sp. A"
Chostophyllum apertum n. sp. Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral
Temnophyllum "sp. A" Walther 1928 horn coral
? Temnophyllum "sp. B" Walther 1928 horn coral
Temnophyllum "sp. D" Walther 1928 horn coral
Temnophyllum turbinatum Hill 1954 horn coral
Temnophyllum cf. turbinatum Hill 1954 horn coral
? Spinophyllum "sp. A" Wedekind 1922 horn coral