Starfish community (Silurian of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (36.8° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 173.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• "upper Wenlock" [no formation name given]
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
• "laminated sand and mud-sand. BA6"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. J. Garratt. 1983. Silurian to early Devonian facies and biofacies patterns for the Melbourne Trough, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 30:121-147 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 494: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.12.1998
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "Garratt, 1983"
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Ophiuroidea | |
"Urosoma sp." = Protaster
"Urosoma sp." = Protaster Forbes 1849 brittle star | |
Stenuroidea | |
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Stylophora | |
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Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914 | |
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Aegiria sp. Opik 1933 |