Wyaralong, Attunga, New South Wales, Australia (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 2312

Where: New South Wales, Australia (31.0° S, 150.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 165.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moore Creek Limestone Member, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

• Stromatoporoid bioherm of 6-18 m thickness. Vertical facies succession.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: S.M.L. Pohler. 1998. Devonian carbonate buildup facies in an intra-oceanic island arc (Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia). Facies 39:1-34 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24210: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.08.2002, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Stromatoporoids not described in detail
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unclassified
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Syringoporida indet., Couvinianella sp.
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sp.
Calceola sp. Lamarck 1799 horn coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
"Phillipsastraea sp." = Phillipsastrea
"Phillipsastraea sp." = Phillipsastrea d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp., Favosites ex gr. goldfussi
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Favosites ex gr. goldfussi Lecompte 1939 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp., "Trachypora circulipora" = Thamnoptychia, "Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
"Trachypora circulipora" = Thamnoptychia tabulate coral
"Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia Hall 1876 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp., Scoliopora sp.
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Scoliopora sp. Lang et al. 1940 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Platyaxum sp., Coenites sp.
Platyaxum sp. Davis 1887 tabulate coral
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
Syringoporella sp.
Syringoporella sp. Kettner 1934 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp.
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet.
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp.
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
? Hermatostroma sp.
? Hermatostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp.
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Pachytheca cf. abdita
Pachytheca cf. abdita chaetetid sponge
[entered as Pachytheka abdita]
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes sp.
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge