Loc. 73. Dog Trap Creek: Pragian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Dohmophyllum sp. Wedekind 1923
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites moonbiensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria
Coordinates: 37.8° South, 147.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.0° South, 175.8° 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:Roaring Mag
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Uppermost member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine calcareous siltstone
Secondary lithology:gray,blue calcareous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark blue-grey claystones, silty claystones, clayey siltstones and fine grained silty quartz sandstones with minor intercalations of dark limestone.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: "The rich shelly fauna of the Tabberabbera Formation is mostly confined to the Kilgower Sandstone Member."
Metadata
Database number:75703
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-10-24 12:20:11 Last modified:2007-10-24 15:20:11
Access level:the public Released:2007-10-24 12:20:11
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]