UQL 6201 McIntyre Knolls (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 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

• block of reef margin or upper reef-slope in slope sediments

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
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
? Hillastraea sp. Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral
Hillastraea floriformis Hill 1954 horn coral
? Hillastraea georgeae Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Thamnophyllum kimberleyense Hill and Jell 1970 horn coral
? Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral