UQL 6307 Guppy Hills (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 4017

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.2° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 18.0° S, 131.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pillara Formation, Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• Disphyllum-Argutastrea fauna, Early Frasnian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• corals are found in biostromes, rather than bioherms, in deeper subtidal back-reef environment

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 92876: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum hockingi, Disphyllum caespitosum, Disphyllum virgatum
Disphyllum hockingi Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral
Disphyllum caespitosum Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
Disphyllum virgatum Hinde 1890 horn coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp.
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp.
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral