Also known as Reef 1575
Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.6° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 127.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sparke Conglomerate Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• Phillipsastrea-Noviphyllum fauna, Middle-Late Frasnian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
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 92881: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Smithiphyllum coppi Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral
Tabulophyllum sp. Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral | |
Phillipsastrea sparkensis Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral | |
Noviphyllum canningense Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral
? Hillastraea sp. Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 |