Bed 17. Sprite Ridge, near Bob's Bore in Virgin Hills (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.5° S, 126.0° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 120.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Palmatolepis rhomboidea conodont zone, Virgin Hills Formation, Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)

• Conodont zone from Feist 2019.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; shelly/skeletal, red, sandy limestone

• red crinoidal sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Feist and T. Becker. 1997. Discovery of Famennian trilobites in Australia (Late Devonian, Canning Basin, NW Australia). in P. R. Racheboeuf and M. Gayet, eds., Actualites paleontologiques (Geobios Mem. Spec. 20), Universite Claude-Bernard, Lyon 231-242 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 223580: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.11.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Cyrtosymbole (Cyrtosymbole) playfordi n. sp. Feist and Becker 1997 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Trimerocephalus tardispinosus n. sp. Feist and Becker 1997 trilobite