QML1033. S side of gap in the Hull Range, Fossil Downs Station (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.3° S, 126.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 127.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pillara Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Frasnian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks and peloidal grainstone

• Within context of larger reef complex. Interpreted in ref. 10549 as platform facies.
• Ref. 10549: The Pillara Limestone is the platform facies...The frame-built parts (reef) were constructed mainly by stromatoporoids, corals, and cyanobacteria. The back-reef and bank subfacies consist largely of stromatoporoid biostromes...with coral biostromes, fenestral limestone, peloid calcarenite, oolite, and some sandstone."

Size class: macrofossils

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 39010: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.05.2004, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Ref. 10548 covers gastropods only.
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Soleniscus (Macrochilina) subcostata" = Bensbergia subcostata, "Soleniscus (Macrochilina) sp." = Strobeus
"Soleniscus (Macrochilina) subcostata" = Bensbergia subcostata von Schlotheim 1820 snail
"Soleniscus (Macrochilina) sp." = Strobeus de Koninck 1881 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) "sp. B" d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Euryzone hullensis n. sp. Cook et al. 2003 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Retispira christinae n. sp. Cook et al. 2003 snail
Aglaoglypta veeversi Cook 1998 snail
 Euomphalina -
"? Gyronema minutiforma n. sp." = Kitikamispira minutiforma
"? Gyronema minutiforma n. sp." = Kitikamispira minutiforma Cook et al. 2003 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus Sowerby 1814 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium gogoensis Fletcher 1943