Gogo Formation: Early Frasnian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Dipteriformes - Chirodipteridae
Campbell and Barwick 1990
Osteichthyes - Dipteriformes - Holodipteridae
Robinsondipterus longi (Campbell and Barwick 1991)
Long 2010
Placodermi - Bothriolepidiformes - Bothriolepididae
Bothriolepis sp. Eichwald 1840
Young 1984
Placodermi
Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes - Holonematidae
Holonema westolli n. sp. Miles 1971
Miles 1971
Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes
Dennis and Miles 1980
Dennis and Miles 1980
Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes - Dinichthyidae
Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes - Coccosteidae
Dennis-Bryan and Miles 1983
Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes
Dennis-Bryan and Miles 1983 1 specimen
Dennis-Bryan and Miles 1983 1 specimen
Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes - Torosteidae
Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes - Mylostomatidae
Dennis and Miles 1980
Placodermi - Phlyctaeniiformes - Camuropiscidae
Dennis and Miles 1982
Dennis and Miles 1981
Holotype WAM 70.4.26
Dennis and Miles 1980
Holotype WAM 70.4.257
Dennis and Miles 1979
Dennis and Miles 1979
Placodermi
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Western Australia
Coordinates: 18.2° South, 124.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.0° South, 110.5° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Late Devonian
Stage: Frasnian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 4
Key time interval: Early Frasnian
Age range of interval: 382.31 - 379 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Gogo
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: The Gogo Formation, identified by Wade (1936) and named by Guppy et al. (1958), represents the oldest inter-reef deposits in the southern region of the Lennard Shelf in the Canning Basin in the north of Western Australia. The Canning Basin reef began its growth in mid-Givetian times (based on miospores; see Grey 1992) and continued until the end of the Famennian. The flat-lying outcrops of the Gogo Formation occur over a large area (∼200 km2) between prominent outcrops of the Devonian reef complex to the east of Fitzroy Crossing, on Gogo and Mt Pierre Stations. They were first mapped by Teichert (1949) and then in more detail by Playford & Lowry (1966). The Gogo Formation is ∼700 m thick as measured from drill core and is the basinal lateral-facies equivalent of the Sadler Limestone Formation (marginal-slope facies), Pillara Limestone (platform facies), and Windjana Limestone (reef facies; see Playford et al. 2009) (Figure 1). In contrast to the subsurface thickness, the type-section thickness is ∼425 m (Guppy et al. 1958). Exposures of the Gogo Formation are poor, comprising dark fine-grained shales and siltstone with thin limestone interbeds containing randomly disposed calcareous concretions varying in size from a few centimeters to almost half a meter width. The formation of the concretions is thought to be bacterially mediated in anoxic muds and is sometimes associated with a buildup of sulfide (Playford & Wallace 2001).
Environment:platform/shelf-margin reef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Gogo Formation
Database number:233189
Authorizer:M. Hopkins, P. Novack-Gottshall, J. Flannery-Sutherland Enterer:A. Goodman, P. Novack-Gottshall, J. Flannery-Sutherland
Modifier:J. Flannery-Sutherland Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:87242
Created:2024-01-19 14:30:18 Last modified:2025-02-24 08:33:15
Access level:the public Released:2024-01-19 14:30:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
87242. R.D.C. Bicknell, P.M. Smith, L.J. Hart, J.A. Long, and K.M. Trinajstic. 2023. Evidence for Placoderms from the Mid-Palaeozoic Sandon Beds of North-western New South Wales, Australia. Proceedings-Linnean Society of New South Wales 145(2023):7-24 [M. Hopkins/A. Goodman]

Secondary references:

66956 K. S. W. Campbell and R. E. Barwick. 1990. A new Devonian lungfish, Pillararhynchus longi n. gen., n. sp., from Gogo, Australia. Paleobiology 16:168-168 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
55954 K. Dennis and R. S. Miles. 1979. A second eubrachythoracid arthrodire from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 67(1):1-29 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
90859 K. Dennis and R. S. Miles. 1979. Eubrachythoracid arthrodires with tubular rostral plates from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 67(4):297-328 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland/P. Novack-Gottshall]
90541 K. Dennis and R. S. Miles. 1980. New durophagous arthrodires from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 69(1):43-85 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland/P. Novack-Gottshall]
90520 K. Dennis and R. S. Miles. 1981. A pachyosteomorph arthrodire from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 73(3):213-258 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland/P. Novack-Gottshall]
94954 K. Dennis and R. S. Miles. 1982. A eubrachythoracid arthrodire with a snubnose from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 75(2):153-166 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]
94962 K. Dennis-Bryan and R. S. Miles. 1983. Further eubrachythoracid arthrodires from Gogo, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 77(2):145-173 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]
66995 J. A. Long. 2010. New holodontid lungfishes from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation of Western Australia. In D. K. Elliott, J. G. Maisey, X. Yu, D. Miao (eds.), Morphology, Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Fossil Fishes 275-298 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
95059 R. S. Miles. 1971. The Holonematidae (placoderm fishes), a review based on new specimens of Holonema from the Upper Devonian of Western Australia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences 263(849):101-234 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]
91072 G. Young. 1984. Reconstruction of the jaws and braincase in the Devonian placoderm fish Bothriolepis. Palaeontology 27:635-661 [J. Flannery-Sutherland/J. Flannery-Sutherland]