Favosites-Massive Stromatoporoid Comm., Burrawong Limestone, Cowra Trough (Silurian of Australia)

Where: New South Wales, Australia (33.3° S, 149.1° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° N, 174.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Burrawong Limestone Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• "limestone deposited in shallow water within a zone of reasonably turbulent water probably adjacent to a coral reef"
• "Detrital mounds contain [fauna]."

Size class: macrofossils

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 25646: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Kirkidium sp.
Kirkidium sp. Amsden et al. 1967
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
Pseudamplexus sp.
Pseudamplexus sp. Weissermel 1897 horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favositidae indet.
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringoporidae indet.
Syringoporidae indet. Fromentel 1864 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolitidae indet.
Heliolitidae indet. Lindström 1876 tabulate coral
Algae
 Algae -
Algae indet.