Nowakia Community, Cave Hill Formation, Melbourne Trough (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 145.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 174.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cave Hill Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

• General for this community: "A planktonic community usually preserved in the pelagic facies (BA 5 and deeper) but known in BA 4, and may even extend into the outer part of BA 3."
• "usually occurs in the clay fraction of the turbidites, crowded on bedding planes and showing current orientation"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: This community is said to range from Late Lochkovian (Upper Humevale Formation) to Givetian (Paplio Mudstone, Broken River Gruop, N. Queensland). This elements listed here commonly occcur together, and are said to occur in the Cave Hill Formation.

Primary reference: D. L. Strusz and M. J. Garratt. 1999. Australian communities. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 177-199 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25676: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
? Panenka sp. Barrande 1881 clam
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884