Loc. 36. North of Tabberabbera: Pragian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Hysterolitidae
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? Hysterolites informal sp. B
von Schlotheim 1820
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Actinopteria acinaces n. sp.
Talent 1963
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Bivalvia
- Grammysiidae
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Grammysia (Grammysioidea) sp.
Williams 1916
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| = Grammysia n. sp. mcCoy 1877 p. 155 | ||||||||||
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Rostroconchia
- Conocardiida
- Conocardiidae
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Conocardium informal sp. C
Bronn 1835
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Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
| Coordinates: | 37.6° South, 147.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.8° South, 175.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Early/Lower Devonian |
| Stage: | Pragian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 1 |
| Key time interval: | Pragian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 410.80000 - 407.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Wentworth | Formation: | Tabberabbera | Member: | Kilgower |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Pragian call based on possibility (attributed to Strusz et al.) that the shelly fauna listed here is intermediate in age between Yeringian Cave Hill Formation and Buchanian Buchan Group. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: arenaceous sandstone | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: "The rich shelly fauna of the Tabberabbera Formation is mostly confined to the Kilgower Sandstone Member." | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 75677 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-10-24 11:13:06 | Last modified: | 2018-11-18 12:08:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-10-24 11:13:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 16373. | J. A. Talent. 1963. The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 24:1-118 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |