UQL 6198 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: perireef or subreef; lithified siltstone and lithified conglomerate

• fossiliferous siltstones appear cyclic and alternate with conglomerates

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 92882: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Hillastraea floriformis Hill 1954 horn coral
Noviphyllum canningense Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Thamnophyllum sp. Penecke 1894 horn coral
? Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
? Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral