Locality 43, Boola Beds, north of Tyers Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria: Silurian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Heliolitida
- Plasmoporidae
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Plasmopora gippslandica
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Micheliniidae
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Pleurodictyum megastoma
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Favosites forbesi
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Favosites coactilis
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Coenitidae
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Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Laccophyllidae
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Syringaxon (Syringaxon) sp.
Lindström 1882
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Streptelasmatidae
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Streptelasma spp.
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Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Ctenodontidae
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Ctenodonta melbournensis
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Ctenodonta victoriae
(Chapman 1908)
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Cucullellidae
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Nuculites sp.
Conrad 1841
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Sowerbyellidae
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Plectodonta bipartita
(Chapman 1913)
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Chonetidae
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Chonetes cresswelli
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Leptostrophiidae
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Leptostrophia affinalata
(Gill 1949)
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| questionable occurrence | ||||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Notoleptaena otophera
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Rhynchonellata
- Pentamerida
- Gypidulidae
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Gypidula victoriae
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Onniella tyersensis
Philip 1962
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
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Notanoplia sp.
Gill 1950
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Cyrtiidae
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Eospirifer togatus
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Delthyrididae
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Delthyris (Howellella) scabra
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Meristellidae
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Meristella sp.
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Nucleospiridae
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Nucleospira sp.
Hall 1859
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Lissatrypidae
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Lissatrypa lenticulata
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Cheiruridae
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Cheirurus (Crotalocephalus) silverdalensis
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Calymenidae
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Gravicalymene angustior
(Chapman 1915)
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| recombined as Calymene (Gravicalymene) angustior | ||||||||||
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Trilobita
- Odontopleurida
- Odontopleuridae
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Leonaspis bispinosa
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria | County: | Boola Boola |
| Coordinates: | 38.2° South, 146.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.4° North, 175.6° East | ||||
| 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: | 443.80000 - 419.20000 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: | 10187 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-03-05 10:03:07 | Last modified: | 2004-03-13 22:45:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-03-05 12:03:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |