Locality 41, Boola Beds, north of Tyers Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria: Silurian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta bipartita (Chapman 1913)
rare
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
rare
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria County:Boola Boola
Coordinates: 38.2° South, 146.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.0° South, 120.7° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Silurian
10 m.y. bin: Silurian 1-2
*Period:Late/Upper Silurian
Key time interval: Silurian
Age range of interval: 443.1 - 419.62 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Boola Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray calcareous mudstone
Lithology description: thick, uniform mudstone series, grey-green, the top 100 ft. are fossiliferous, and may become calcareous and strongly cemented with carbonate, approaching an impure limestone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:10185
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2001-03-05 09:58:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2001-03-05 12:03:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
458. G. M. Philip. 1962. The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 75(n.s.):123-246 [A. Miller/K. Layou]