UQL 6337 Oscar Range (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 1577

Where: Western Australia, Australia (17.6° S, 125.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.6° S, 126.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pillara Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• unit 3 (lower part), ?Disphyllum murum fauna, Late Frasnian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• back-reef

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 92884: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
? Disphyllum murum n. sp. Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral