Windjana Gorge, reef slope (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 1578

Where: Western Australia, Australia (17.4° S, 125.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.9° S, 117.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Windjana Limestone Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• calcimicrobial-sponge mounds (up to 3 m thick and 15 m in diameter) and elevated platy calcimicrobial-sponge communities (up to 4 m in diameter and 0.35 m thick) in a proximal reef-slope setting

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Wood. 2004. Palaeoecology of a post-extinction reef: Famennian (Late Devonian) of the Canning Basin, North-Western Australia. Palaeontology 47(2):415-445 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83973: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella ducii
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella imprimis
Rothpletzella
  -
Rothpletzella magnum
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora geikiei
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Litanaia perisseia
 Life -
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Ptychocladidae
Shuguria devonicus
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
Hexactinellida
 Amphidiscosa - Pelicaspongiidae
Galeospongia pleraducta, Cavospongiella confossa, ? Pelicaspongia sp., Pelicaspongia cupula
Galeospongia pleraducta Rigby 1986 glass sponge
Cavospongiella confossa Rigby 1986 glass sponge
? Pelicaspongia sp. Rigby 1970 glass sponge
Pelicaspongia cupula Rigby 1986 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Pillaraspongiidae
Pillaraspongia ellimberia
Pillaraspongia ellimberia Rigby 1986 glass sponge
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora lennardensis
Stromatopora lennardensis stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona saginata
Clathrocoilona saginata stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Anthaspidella multiostia, Canningella obconica, Canningella expansa, Canningella interrupta, ? Playfordiella sp., ? Playfordiella capitanea, Playfordiella cylindrata
Anthaspidella multiostia Rigby 1986 demosponge
Canningella obconica Rigby 1986 demosponge
Canningella expansa Rigby 1986 demosponge
Canningella interrupta Rigby 1986 demosponge
? Playfordiella sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge
? Playfordiella capitanea Rigby 1986 demosponge
Playfordiella cylindrata Rigby 1986 demosponge
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
? Scheielloides sp.
? Scheielloides sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge