Where: Victoria, Australia (37.8° S, 145.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° S, 174.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lilydale Limestone Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lilydale Limestone, for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Upper Silurian in text, but regarded as Emsian by more recent publications. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the formation; local thickness is about 100 ft.
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•The age is given as Pragian in most of the current literature (PJW). The collection is already entered for gastropods.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cresswell
• COLLECTOR: Rev. A. W. Cresswell. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text, but presumably the Australian Museum.
Primary reference: R., J.r. Etheridge. 1890. Descriptions of the Upper Silurian fossils from the Lilydale Limestone, Upper Yarra District, Victoria. Records of the Australian Museum 14:60-67 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91431: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cyclonema lilydalensis" = Australonema lilydalensis, "Cyclonema australis" = Australonema australis
"Cyclonema lilydalensis" = Australonema lilydalensis Etheridge 1891 snail
"Cyclonema australis" = Australonema australis Etheridge 1890 snail | |
Bellerophon cresswelli Etheridge 1891 snail | |
Phanerotrema australis Etheridge 1891 snail | |
Murchisonia sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
? Ambonychia postriata n. sp.
? Ambonychia postriata n. sp. clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 |