QML1030. south bank of creek above Casey Falls, Old Bohemia Station (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as NMVPL 1931

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.7° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 120.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Perneroceras delepinei ammonoid zone, Virgin Hills Formation, Middle Famennian (370.6 - 364.7 Ma)

• In red carbonate-rich shales...Famennian...Perneroceras delepenei biozone of Becker and House (1997), upper marginifera conodont Zone"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; grainstone and red, calcareous shale

• Within context of larger reef complex. Interpreted in ref. 10549 as marginal slope and basin facies.
• Ref. 10549: "The Virgin Hills Fromation is typically red and consists of calcarenite, calcirudite and megabreccia with interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and conglomerate; clastic sediments become more common in the basin facies." This collection "in red carbonate-rich shales"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Queensland Museum

Primary reference: A. G. Cook, R. B. Blodgett, and R. T. Becker. 2003. Late Devonian gastropods from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Alcheringa 27(3-4):181-207 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38990: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Ref. 10548 covers gastropods only.
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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Hexacrinitidae
Wacrinus caseyensis n. gen. n. sp., Wacrinus millardensis n. sp.
Wacrinus caseyensis n. gen. n. sp. Jell and Jell 1999 Sea lily
Wacrinus millardensis n. sp. Jell and Jell 1999 Sea lily
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"raphistomatid"
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Pseudomphalotrochus sp.
Pseudomphalotrochus sp. Blodgett 1992 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Euconospira sp.
Euconospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis (Naticospsis) "sp. A"