Cave-hill Quarries, Lilydale [Lilydale Lmst] (Devonian of Australia)

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.

•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

• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Cream limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

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

• COVERAGE: Representative, but possibly not exhaustive, for marine invertebrate groups. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated nomenclature, but updated for some groups with more recent publications; species-resolution identifications.
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae
"Cyclonema lilydalensis" = Australonema lilydalensis, "Cyclonema australis" = Australonema australis
"Cyclonema lilydalensis" = Australonema lilydalensis Etheridge 1891 snail
"Cyclonema australis" = Australonema australis Etheridge 1890 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon cresswelli Etheridge 1891 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phanerotrematidae
Phanerotrema australis Etheridge 1891 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758