Locality 50, Boola Beds, east of Boola Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria (Silurian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 175.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Boola Beds Formation, Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous mudstone

• thick, uniform mudstone series, grey-green, the top 100 ft. are fossiliferous, and may become calcareous and strongly cemented with carbonate, approaching an impure limestone

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10194: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 05.03.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Lissatrypa lenticulata n. sp.
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Microplasma cf. devonica
Microplasma cf. devonica horn coral
occasional
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma etheridgei n. sp.
Tryplasma etheridgei n. sp. horn coral
common
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma spp.
Streptelasma spp. Hall 1847 horn coral
occasional
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Syringaxon (Syringaxon) sp., Syringaxon (Saucrophyllum) pocillum n. sp.
Syringaxon (Syringaxon) sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
occasional
Syringaxon (Saucrophyllum) pocillum n. sp. horn coral
common
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora typica
Stromatopora typica stromatoporoid sponge
rare