Benny's Tops area: Emsian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida
Ozarkodina prolata
Ozarkodina ? buchanensis
originally entered as "Ozarkodina ? buchanensis"
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Radiophyllum sp. Hill 1942
? Mictophyllum sp. Lang and Smith 1939
originally entered as "? Mictophyllum sp."
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Thamnophyllum sp. Penecke 1894
Phillipsastrea carinata
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum cf. clermontense (Etheridge 1911)
originally entered as "Acanthophyllum cf. clermontense"
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Pseudoplasmoporidae
Pseudoplasmopora gippslandica
Anthozoa - Favositida - Parastriatoporidae
Yacutiopora sp. Dubatolov 1964
Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
Gracilopora sp. Chudinova 1964
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Squameofavosites bohemicus
forma taimyrica
Squameofavosites bryani
Favosites goldfussi Lecompte 1939
var. eifelensis
Anthozoa - Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites gippslandica
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Roemeriidae
Roemeripora progenitor
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:New South Wales
Coordinates: 31.8° South, 151.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.2° South, 174.2° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Emsian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Devonian
Key time interval:Emsian Zone: dehiscens - serotinus
Age range of interval:407.60000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Member:limestones
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Dated by corals and conodonts.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "Limestones."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Includes conodonts and corals.
Metadata
Database number:3698
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-06 15:17:55 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

224. G. M. S. Dongal. 1995. Early Devonian (Pragian and early Emsian) fauna from the eastern Tamworth Terrane, New South Wales. Memoir of the Association of Autralasian Palaeontologists 18:131-142 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]