Also known as Reef 1575
Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.6° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 127.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Virgin Hills Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• Thamnophyllum-Hillastraea 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 92894: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Renalcis | |
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
? Hillastraea sp. Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral
Hillastraea floriformis Hill 1954 horn coral
? Hillastraea georgeae Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral | |
Thamnophyllum kimberleyense Hill and Jell 1970 horn coral
? Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral |