PBDB Collection

Locality 11, Coopers Creek Fm., near Tyers Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 163.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coopers Creek Limestone Formation, Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone

• ranges from a typical gray limestone through into conglomeratic rocks or even silty, impure limestones; well-bedded towards the base, massive at higher horizons, in general, a coarse calcarenite made up essentially of comminuted bioclastic debris, mainly corals, stromatoporoids, and to a lesser degree, algae; in the boola quarry, the rock approaches more a calcilutite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. M. Philip. 1962. The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 75(n.s.):123-246 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10127: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
Strophomenida - Chonetidae	Chonetes sp. Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 rare
Strophomenida - Strophodontidae	Megastrophia sp. Megastrophia sp. Caster 1939 rare
Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae	Leptaena sp. Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 rare
Rhynchonellata
Spiriferida - Delthyrididae	Delthyris (Howellella) scabra n. sp. Delthyris (Howellella) scabra n. sp. rare
Atrypida - Atrypidae	Atrypa reticularis Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 rare
Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae	Uncinulus sp. Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878 rare
Orthida - Dalmanellidae	Tyersella typica n. gen. n. sp. Tyersella typica n. gen. n. sp. Philip 1962 occasional
Anthozoa
Stauriida - Eridophyllidae	Tipheophyllum ops n. sp. Tipheophyllum ops n. sp. horn coral rare
Stauriida - Mucophyllidae	Pseudamplexus princeps Pseudamplexus princeps horn coral questionable identification
Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae	Thamnophyllum reclinatum Thamnophyllum reclinatum horn coral rare
Stauriida - Disphyllidae	Hexagonaria approximans, Disphyllum sp. Hexagonaria approximans horn coral occasional Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral rare
Stauriida - Laccophyllidae	Syringaxon (Barrandeophyllum) sp., Syringaxon (Saucrophyllum) pocillum n. sp. Syringaxon (Barrandeophyllum) sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral rare Syringaxon (Saucrophyllum) pocillum n. sp. horn coral rare
Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae	Xystriphyllum mitchelli Xystriphyllum mitchelli horn coral rare
Favositida - Favositidae	Favosites forbesi, Favosites hillae n. sp., Favosites coactilis n. sp., Favosites macilentus n. sp., Favosites sp., Favosites goldfussi, Favosites gothlandicus, "Favosites squamuliferus" = Squameofavosites squamuliferus Favosites forbesi tabulate coral common Favosites hillae n. sp. tabulate coral occasional Favosites coactilis n. sp. tabulate coral occasional Favosites macilentus n. sp. tabulate coral occasional Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral rare Favosites goldfussi Lecompte 1939 tabulate coral occasional Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral rare "Favosites squamuliferus" = Squameofavosites squamuliferus Etheridge 1899 tabulate coral F. squamuliferus forma bryani (abundant), forma nitidus (abundant), format australis (occas.), forma ovatiporus (occas.), two other forms (rare and occas)
Favositida - Pachyporidae	Thamnopora boloniensis Thamnopora boloniensis tabulate coral occasional
Favositida - Theciidae	Fossopora quintaria n. sp. Fossopora quintaria n. sp. tabulate coral occasional
Favositida - Alveolitidae	Alveolites taenioformis Alveolites taenioformis tabulate coral rare
Favositida - Coenitidae	Coenites (Cladopora) foliata, Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica Coenites (Cladopora) foliata tabulate coral occasional Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica tabulate coral common
Auloporida - Auloporidae	Aulopora emergens Aulopora emergens tabulate coral occasional
Heliolitida - Heliolitidae	Heliolites daintreei Heliolites daintreei tabulate coral common
Heliolitida - Plasmoporidae	Plasmopora gippslandica Plasmopora gippslandica tabulate coral rare
Stromatoporoidea
Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae	Stromatopora dybowskii, Stromatopora foveolata, Stromatopora secunda, Stromatopora tenuilacunosa Stromatopora dybowskii stromatoporoid sponge rare Stromatopora foveolata stromatoporoid sponge occasional Stromatopora secunda stromatoporoid sponge occasional Stromatopora tenuilacunosa stromatoporoid sponge rare
Amphiporida - Amphiporidae	Amphipora ramosa Amphipora ramosa Phillips 1841 stromatoporoid sponge occasional
Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae	Stromatoporella granulata Stromatoporella granulata stromatoporoid sponge occasional
Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae	Actinostroma verrucosum, "Actinostroma intertextum" = Plectostroma intertextum Actinostroma verrucosum stromatoporoid sponge occasional "Actinostroma intertextum" = Plectostroma intertextum Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge rare