Odontochile Community, basal Humevale Formation, near Melbourne (Silurian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (37.5° S, 145.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 175.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Humevale Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• Basal part of formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone

• "...Jell and Holloway (1983) suggested deposition as a mud flow but made no comment about likely water depth. Garrat has found that...Odontochile is most abundant in beds below the Maoristrophia and Notanoplia Communities, and so in rather deeper water than at Yass [PBDB coll'n. 25677]. BA 5 seems likely, extending into BA 6 where associated with starfish community as [here]."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: List based only on material reported from basal Humevale Formation at locality NMVP261.

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 25678: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Reedops sp. Richter and Richter 1925 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
Soluta
 Dendrocystitida - Dendrocystitidae
Ophiuroidea
  - Encrinasteridae