Starfish community (Silurian of Australia)

Where: Victoria, Australia (36.8° S, 144.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 173.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• "upper Wenlock" [no formation name given]

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

• "laminated sand and mud-sand. BA6"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. J. Garratt. 1983. Silurian to early Devonian facies and biofacies patterns for the Melbourne Trough, central Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 30:121-147 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 494: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.12.1998

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Taxonomic list

• "Garratt, 1983"
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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina sp.
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Lissatrypa sp.
Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet.
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
rhynchonellids - originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes sp.
Protochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Aegiria sp.
Aegiria sp. Opik 1933
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp.
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
Stenuroidea
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Stuertzaster sp.
Stuertzaster sp. Etheridge 1899
originally entered as "Sturtzaster sp."
Ophiuroidea
 Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
"Urosoma sp." = Protaster
"Urosoma sp." = Protaster Forbes 1849 brittle star
Stylophora
 Mitrata - Anomalocystitidae
Victoriacystis sp.
Victoriacystis sp.
originally entered as "Victoriarystis sp."