Loc. 35. Mitchell River National Park (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 147.4° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° S, 175.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Eocostapolygnathus pireneae conodont zone, Kilgower Member (Tabberabbera Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Pragian call based on possibility (attributed to Strusz et al.) that the shelly fauna listed here is intermediate in age between Yeringian Cave Hill Formation and Buchanian Buchan Group.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous sandstone

• arenaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "The rich shelly fauna of the Tabberabbera Formation is mostly confined to the Kilgower Sandstone Member."

Primary reference: J. A. Talent. 1963. The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 24:1-118 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75691: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
 Life -
Allonema nodosum Talent 1963
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites indet. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
cf. Favosites gothlandica Lamark sensu Chapman 1914
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Cornuproetus "n. sp." Richter and Richter 1919 trilobite
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Philhedra acutilirata n. sp. Talent 1963
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Orthotetida - Orthotetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
Adolfia glypta n. sp. Talent 1963
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella textilis n. sp. Talent 1963
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Phragmophora punctata n. sp. Talent 1963
Isorthis alpha Gill 1949
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa cf. reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Fenestella dargoensis Talent 1963
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites "sp. B" von Schlotheim 1820
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria resplendens n. sp. Talent 1963 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae
Beraunia cf. docens Perner 1903 snail
Australonema cf. australis Etheridge 1890 snail