Starfish community 2 (Silurian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (36.8° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 173.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• [no formation name given]

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• "BA6"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. J. Garratt. 1983. Silurian to early Devonian facies and biofacies patterns for the Melbourne Trough, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 30:121-147 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 495: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.12.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Garratt, 1983"
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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum sp.
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
Stylophora
 Mitrata -
Notocarpos sp.
Notocarpos sp.
originally entered as "Notocarpus sp."
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid
Asteroidea
 Euaxosida - Palasterinidae
Petraster sp.
Petraster sp. Billings 1858 sea star
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Odontochile sp.
Odontochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Lissatrypa sp.
Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914
 Athyridida - Retziellidae
Molongia sp.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Plectodonta sp.
Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
Maoristrophia sp.
Maoristrophia sp. Allan 1947
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797