UQL 6308 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 92877: 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
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp.
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum hockingi n. sp., Disphyllum cf. hockingi, Disphyllum caespitosum, Disphyllum virgatum
Disphyllum hockingi n. sp. Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral
Disphyllum cf. hockingi Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral
Disphyllum caespitosum Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
Disphyllum virgatum Hinde 1890 horn coral