PBDB Collection

Locality 20, Coopers Creek Fm., south of Tyers Quarry, along Tyers River, Tyers (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 163.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coopers Creek Limestone Formation, Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray grainstone

• ranges from a typical gray limestone through into conglomeratic rocks or even silty, impure limestones; well-bedded towards the base, massive at higher horizons, in general, a coarse calcarenite made up essentially of comminuted bioclastic debris, mainly corals, stromatoporoids, and to a lesser degree, algae; in the boola quarry, the rock approaches more a calcilutite

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. M. Philip. 1962. The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 75(n.s.):123-246 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10136: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Hexagonia approximans Hexagonia approximans rare
Rhynchonellata
Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae	Uncinulus sp. Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878 rare
Anthozoa
Favositida - Favositidae	"Favosites squamuliferus" = Squameofavosites squamuliferus "Favosites squamuliferus" = Squameofavosites squamuliferus Etheridge 1899 tabulate coral F. squamuliferus forma nitidus (occasional), F. squamuliferus forma australis (rare), F. squam forma ovatiporus (rare), other form (common)
Favositida - Alveolitidae	Natalophyllum callidum n. sp. Natalophyllum callidum n. sp. tabulate coral occasional
Favositida - Coenitidae	Coenites (Cladopora) foliata, Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica Coenites (Cladopora) foliata tabulate coral rare Coenites (Cladopora) gippslandica tabulate coral occasional
Heliolitida - Heliolitidae	Heliolites daintreei Heliolites daintreei tabulate coral rare
Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae	Tryplasma wellingtonensis, Tryplasma sp. Tryplasma wellingtonensis horn coral rare Tryplasma sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral rare
Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae	Lyrielasma subcaespitosum, Acanthophyllum mansfieldense, "Acanthophyllum clermontensis" = Acanthophyllum clermontense Lyrielasma subcaespitosum horn coral rare; L. subcaespitosum praecursor subsp. nov. Acanthophyllum mansfieldense horn coral occasional "Acanthophyllum clermontensis" = Acanthophyllum clermontense Etheridge 1911 horn coral rare
Stauriida - Zaphrentidae	Heliophyllum pinguisepltatum Heliophyllum pinguisepltatum horn coral rare
Stauriida - Laccophyllidae	Syringaxon (Barrandeophyllum) sp. Syringaxon (Barrandeophyllum) sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral occasional
Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae	Phillipsastrea maculosa, Thamnophyllum reclinatum Phillipsastrea maculosa Hill 1942 horn coral rare Thamnophyllum reclinatum horn coral abundant
Stromatoporoidea
Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae	Parallelopora lilydalensis Parallelopora lilydalensis stromatoporoid sponge rare
Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae	Actinostroma verrucosum Actinostroma verrucosum stromatoporoid sponge rare
Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae	Stromatopora bucheliensis, Stromatopora tenuilacunosa Stromatopora bucheliensis stromatoporoid sponge occasional Stromatopora tenuilacunosa stromatoporoid sponge rare