Where: Tasmania, Australia (42.6° S, 146.4° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 179.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pleurograptus linearis zone, Benjamin Limestone Formation, Onnian (453.0 - 449.5 Ma)
• Top of the formation.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Primary reference: M. R. Banks. 1988. The base of the Silurian System in Tasmania. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Geology Series) 43:191-194 [M. Foote/M. Foote/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26238: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Phragmodus undatus conodont | |
Belodina compressa Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Beloitoceras sp. Foerste 1924 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Anthozoa | |
Favistina sp. Flower 1961 horn coral
Palaeophyllum spp. Billings 1858 horn coral
Cyathophylloides sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral | |
"Palaeofavosites sp." = Paleofavosites
"Palaeofavosites sp." = Paleofavosites Twenhofel 1914 tabulate coral | |
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Falsicatenipora cf. chillagoensis tabulate coral | |
Coccoseris sp. Eichwald 1855 tabulate coral | |
Eofletcheria sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral | |
Calapoecia sp. Billings 1865 tabulate coral | |
Foerstephyllum sp. Bassler 1950 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge |