Elmside, Yass Area (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3535

Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.8° S, 148.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 175.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Elmside Formation, Gedinnine (416.0 - 412.3 Ma)

• mudstone member of the Elmside Fm., algal limestone lens Z5 of Link and Druce, 1972

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Red algal-calcimicrobial-stromatoporoid bindstones,

•Stachyodes as main reef builder,

•20% stromatoporoids, Rothpletzella (5%), Renalcis (5%), Wetheredella (2%) and Graticula-like red algae ( 1%) as encrusters. Stromatolites and Girvanella (1%) present

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: N. Adachi and Y. Ezaki. 2007. Microbial impacts on the genesis of Lower Devonian reefal limestones, eastern Australia. Palaeoworld 16:301-310 [W. Kiessling/E. Jarochowska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 161458: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Emilia Jarochowska on 05.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp.
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Rothpletzella
  -
Rothpletzella sp.
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp.
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
 Life -
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Graticula sp.