Where: New South Wales, Australia (34.0° S, 148.8° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 174.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Silurian (443.4 - 419.2 Ma)
• "The association [of fossils] is consistent with a Late Silurian age."
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray lime mudstone and gray grainstone
Preservation: replaced with silica
Primary reference: J. R. Farrell. 1992. The Garra Formation (Early Devonian: Late Lochkovian) between Cumnock and Larras Lee, New South Wales, Australia: stratigraphic and structural setting, faunas, and community sequence. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 222(1-3):1-41 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25723: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 24.09.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
"Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia, Cladopora sp.
"Trachypora sp." = Thamnoptychia Hall 1876 tabulate coral
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceratidae indet. Hall 1859 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Hedeina sp. Boucot 1957 | |
Trilobita | |
Encrinurus sp. Emmrich 1844 trilobite |