Locality 31, Mount Ida Formation, Redcastle District, Victoria, Australia: Pragian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884
Actinopteria sp. A
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Retziellidae
Molongia sp. n. sp.
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spiriferidae indet. King 1846
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Isorthis sp. D
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
cuboidal Rhynchonellids
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaenidae indet. Hall and Clarke 1894
replaced by Leptaeninae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum megastoma
Pleurodictyum ? selcanum
Pleurodictyum selcanum?
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Clionolithes sp. Clark 1908
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Victoria County:Redcastle
Coordinates: 36.8° South, 144.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.4° South, 173.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Pragian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1
*Epoch:Lower Devonian
*International age/stage:Siegenian - Late/Upper Gedinnian
Key time interval:Pragian
Age range of interval:410.80000 - 407.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mount Ida Member:Unit 3
Local section:31 Local bed:Pleurodictyum beds
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomeratic sandstone
Lithology description: coarse, leached sandstone, at times conglomeratic
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8504
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-07-16 10:58:08 Last modified:2004-03-13 22:45:00
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

535. J. A. Talent. 1965. The Silurian and Early Devonian Faunas of the Heathcote District, Victoria. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 26:1-55 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]