Where: Victoria, Australia (36.8° S, 144.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° S, 174.1° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Ida Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)
• faunal list is from units 2 (Pentamerus beds) and 3 (Pleurodictyum beds) of the Mount Ida Formation, according to the author's figure 1
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray sandstone and siltstone
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• list is based on nine years of collecting; this publication appears to be an outlet for amateurs to publish their findings
Primary reference: J. V. Neil. 1982. The Early Devonian Fauna of the Mt. Ida Formation in the Heathcote District. Victorian Naturalist 99(5):195-201 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7196: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.05.2000, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Encrinurinae indet. Angelin 1854 trilobite | |
Cheirurus sp. Beyrich 1845 trilobite | |
? Odontochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite | |
? Acastella sp. Reed 1925 trilobite | |
Ananaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite | |
Homalonotinae indet. trilobite | |
Sthenarocalymene sp. Siveter 1977 trilobite | |
Harpidella sp. M'Coy 1849 trilobite | |
Proetus sp. Steininger 1831 trilobite | |
Tropidocoryphinae indet. Pribyl 1946 trilobite | |
Acanthopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Scutellum sp. Pusch 1833 trilobite | |
Leonaspis sp. Richter and Richter 1917 trilobite | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932 | |
Gastropoda | |
Bellerophontidae indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Stylonema sp. Perner 1907 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Phestia sp. Chernyshev 1951 clam | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Ctenodonta victoriae Chapman 1908 clam | |
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster
Pterinea sp. Goldfuss 1832 oyster | |
Eoschizodus sp. Cox 1951 clam | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam | |
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam | |
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Cosmogoniophora sp. McLearn 1918 clam
Glossites sp. Hall 1885 clam
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Athyrididae indet. McCoy 1841 | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Delthyris sp. Dalman 1828
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
? Megakozlowskiella sp. Boucot 1957 | |
Orthidae indet. Woodward 1852 | |
Rhipidomellidae indet. Schuchert 1913 | |
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
? Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Salopina sp. Boucot 1960 | |
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Lissatrypa sp. Twenhofel 1914 | |
Lanceomyonia sp. Havlíček 1960 | |
Stegerhynchus sp. Foerste 1909 | |
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Gypidula sp. Hall 1867 | |
Strophomenata | |
Schuchertellidae indet. Williams 1953 | |
Stropheodontidae indet. Caster 1939 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Nadiastrophia sp. Talent 1963 | |
Strophomenidae indet. King 1846 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Plectodonta bipartita Chapman 1913 | |
"Stropheodonta limbimura" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta limbimura" = Strophomena (Strophodonta) | |
Hyolitha | |
? Lentitheca sp. Sysoyev 1958 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Polychaeta | |
? Plumulites sp. Barrande 1872 scale worm | |
unclassified | |
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801 large, poorly preserved plates with a tuberculate ornament (experts disagree between aganthan ostracoderm or echinoderm remains)
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Cystoidea | |
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Crinoidea | |
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Crotalocrinites pulcher Sea lily | |
Blastoidea | |
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conulariinae indet. Walcott 1886 jellyfish | |
Anthozoa | |
? Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Pleurodictyum megastoma tabulate coral
Pleurodictyum selcaum tabulate coral | |
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral | |
Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral | |
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