Walker Volcanics, Canberra, Additional Brachiopods and other Biota (Silurian of Australia)

Also known as Salopina mediocostata Community

Where: Australian Capital Territories, Australia (35.3° S, 149.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 175.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Walker Volcanics Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• See PBDB collection 25679.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• "mudstone" See also PBDB Coll. 25679.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Listed here are taxa from PBDB ref. 7163 that were not listed in the sample that is the basis of PBDB collection 25679.

Primary reference: D. L. Strusz. 1982. Wenlock brachiopods from Canberra, Australia. Alcheringa 6:105-142 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25691: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
? Leangella sp. Opik 1933
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
cf. Plectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Pentlandina cf. loveni Verneuil 1848
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Brachyprion sp. Shaler 1865
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
cf. Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella cf. elegans Muir-Wood 1925
 Pentamerida -
Pentamerida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
"Atrypella sp." = Atrypoidea
"Atrypella sp." = Atrypoidea Mitchell and Dun 1920
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
unclassified
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Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758