UQL 6197 Sparke Range (Devonian of Australia)

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

• bioherm? with fenestral limestone core, corals and brachiopods on flanks of bioherm

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
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Smithiphyllum coppi Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral
Tabulophyllum sp. Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phillipsastrea sparkensis Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Noviphyllum canningense Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral
? Hillastraea sp. Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Kayserellidae
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp. King 1850