Garra Formation Corals 2: Lochkovian - Pragian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum (Grypophyllum) jenkinsi n. sp. Strusz 1966
recombined as Grypophyllum jenkinsi
Acanthophyllum (Acanthophyllum) aeneae n. sp.
Acanthophyllum (Neostringophyllum) implicatum n. sp.
Acanthophyllum (Neostringophyllum) turni n. sp.
Acanthophyllum (Acanthophyllum) clermontense (Etheridge 1911)
Acanthophyllum (Acanthophyllum) cf. clermontense (Etheridge 1911)
Taimyrophyllum expansum
Pseudochonophyllum pseudohelianthoides
? Lyrielasma micrum n. sp.
Lyrielasma subcaespitosum
Lyrielasma cf. subcaespitosum
Lyrielasma aggregatum
Xystriphyllum dunstani (Etheridge 1911)
Xystriphyllum magnum Hill 1942
Australophyllum bilaterale n. sp.
Australophyllum thomasae
? Australophyllum cf. thomasae
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Spongophyllidae
Spongophyllum halysitoides
Spongophyllum rosiforme
Spongophyllum cf. rosiforme
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:New South Wales
Coordinates: 33.0° South, 149.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.5° South, 174.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1
*International age/stage:Lochkovian - Pragian
Key time interval:Lochkovian - Pragian
Age range of interval:419.20000 - 407.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Garra
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Strusz interprets age as Emsian. More recent work (e.g., PBDB refs. 7152, 7167-7170) argue for age range of Lochkovian to Pragian, based mainly on conodonts.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: grainstone
Secondary lithology: calcareous "shale"
Lithology description: From Strusz (1965, PBDB ref. 7170): "The two dominant lithologies are calcareous shale and detrital limestones. These are interspersed with reef-type deposits, which range from two or three rather large bioherms down to thin biostromes built by laminar stromatoporoids. The detrital limestones include all types, but are predominantly fossiliferous calcarenites, which are frequently thinly interbedded with calcareous to noncalcareous shale. In some areas there are extensive outcrops of algal limestones and pellet or oolite calcarenites; these are generally only sparsely fossiliferous." See PBDB collections 25695-25697.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: From Lenz and Johnson, ref. 7167: "The Garra limestones are the product of relatively shallow water deposition; the lower approximately one-third of the formation represents a progressive transgressive sequence, the middle portion is the product of still-sand and gradual infilling, and the upper one-third represents progressive shallowing to supratidal conditions."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: More detailed locality information given by Strusz.
Taxonomic list comments:Selected corals only.
Metadata
Database number:25700
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-09-23 11:15:56 Last modified:2018-11-15 13:02:11
Access level:the public Released:2002-09-23 11:15:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7171. D. L. Strusz. 1966. Spongophyllidae from the Devonian Garra Formation, New South Wales. Palaeontology 9(4):544-598 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]