Where: Australian Capital Territories, Australia (35.0° S, 149.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 175.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bowspring Limestone Member (Silverdale Formation), Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)
• See Strusz et al. (1999, PBDB ref. 7152, Fig. 14.3) for stratigraphy.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. A. McLean. 1976. Aspects of the Silurian rugose coral fauna of the Yass region, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 100(3):179-194 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25687: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Tryplasma lonsdalei horn coral | |
Holmophyllum colligatum horn coral | |
Cystiphyllum cf. siluriense horn coral | |
Phaulactis shearsbyi horn coral | |
Australophyllum spongophylloides horn coral
? Australophyllum shearsbii horn coral | |
Mucophyllum liliiforme horn coral | |
Pycnostylus dendroides horn coral | |
Entelophyllum yassense horn coral | |
? Zelolasma praecox horn coral | |
Yassia enormis horn coral |