UQL 6329 Dingo Gap (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 4019

Where: Western Australia, Australia (17.7° S, 125.2° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 126.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Napier Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Spinophyllum prolatum fauna, latest Frasnian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• sponge/coral bioherm, with common brachiopods, overlapped by stromatolite-rich fore-reef slope

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 92897: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
? Hillastraea sp.
? Hillastraea sp. Brownlaw and Jell 1997 horn coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Frechastraea sp.
Frechastraea sp. Scrutton 1968 horn coral
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Spinophyllum prolatum
Spinophyllum prolatum Brownlaw and Jell 2008 horn coral