Locality 1, near Boola Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria: Devonian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Leptaena sp.
Dalman 1828
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| rare | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Uncinulidae
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Uncinulus ? sp.
Bayle 1878
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| rare | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Atrypidae
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Atrypa cf. reticularis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| original and current combination Anomia reticularis | ||||||||||
| rare | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Favositidae
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Favosites bryani
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| rare; F. squamuliferus forma bryani | ||||||||||
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Favosites nitidus
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| occasional; F. squamuliferus forma nitidus | ||||||||||
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Favosites stelliformis
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| rare; F. squamuliferus forma stelliformis | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Coenitidae
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Coenites gippslandica
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| rare | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria | County: | Boola Boola |
| Coordinates: | 38.2° South, 146.5° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.7° South, 163.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 1-5 | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Lower Devonian |
| Key time interval: | Devonian |
| Age range of interval: | 419.20000 - 358.90000 m.y. ago |
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Coopers Creek Limestone |
| Local section: | Locality 1 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray lime mudstone |
| Lithology description: ranges from a typical grey limestone through into conglomeratic rocks or even silty, impure limestones; well-bedded towards the base, massive at higher horizons; in general, a coarse calcarenite made up essentially of comminuted bioclastic debris, mainly corals, stromatoporoids, and to a lesser degree, algae; in the boola quarry, the rock approaches more a calcilutite | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 7211 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-19 07:14:36 | Last modified: | 2004-03-13 22:45:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:34 |
| 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] |