Windjana Gorge, reef slope (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 1578

Where: Western Australia, Australia (17.4° S, 125.0° E: paleocoordinates 20.9° S, 117.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Windjana Limestone Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• calcimicrobial-sponge mounds (up to 3 m thick and 15 m in diameter) and elevated platy calcimicrobial-sponge communities (up to 4 m in diameter and 0.35 m thick) in a proximal reef-slope setting

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Wood. 2004. Palaeoecology of a post-extinction reef: Famennian (Late Devonian) of the Canning Basin, North-Western Australia. Palaeontology 47(2):415-445 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83973: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora lennardensis
Stromatopora lennardensis stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Clathrocoilona saginata
Clathrocoilona saginata stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae
? Scheielloides sp.
? Scheielloides sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
? Playfordiella sp., ? Playfordiella capitanea, Playfordiella cylindrata, Anthaspidella multiostia, Canningella interrupta, Canningella expansa, Canningella obconica
? Playfordiella sp. Rigby 1986 demosponge
? Playfordiella capitanea Rigby 1986 demosponge
Playfordiella cylindrata Rigby 1986 demosponge
Anthaspidella multiostia Rigby 1986 demosponge
Canningella interrupta Rigby 1986 demosponge
Canningella expansa Rigby 1986 demosponge
Canningella obconica Rigby 1986 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Amphidiscosa - Pelicaspongiidae
Cavospongiella confossa, Galeospongia pleraducta, ? Pelicaspongia sp., Pelicaspongia cupula
Cavospongiella confossa Rigby 1986 glass sponge
Galeospongia pleraducta Rigby 1986 glass sponge
? Pelicaspongia sp. Rigby 1970 glass sponge
Pelicaspongia cupula Rigby 1986 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Pillaraspongiidae
Pillaraspongia ellimberia
Pillaraspongia ellimberia Rigby 1986 glass sponge
 Life -
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora geikiei
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Litanaia perisseia
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Ptychocladidae
Shuguria devonicus
Rothpletzella
  -
Rothpletzella magnum
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella imprimis
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella ducii