Goniatite zone E1, Loc. 365 , Frasnian, Canning Basin (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.5° S, 126.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.3° S, 131.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gogo Formation, Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• Probeloceras lutheri regional zone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and limestone

• Basin facies of the reef complex.
• From ref. 10549: "a unit of shale and siltstone with interbedded limestone and horizons of calcareous concretions"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. T. Becker, M. R. House, and W. T. Kirchgasser. 1993. Devonian goniatite biostratigraphy and timing of facies movements in the Frasnian of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. In E. A. Hailwood, R. B. Kidd (eds.), High Resolution Stratigraphy 70:293-321 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39044: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• For the most part, only goniatites are listed.
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Acanthoclymeniidae
Ponticeras sp. Matern 1929 ammonite
Probeloceras lutheri Clarke 1885 ammonite
Acanthoclymenia sp. n. sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Acanthoclymenia aff. neapolitana Clarke 1892 ammonite
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Mixomanticoceras exploratum n. gen. n. sp. Becker et al. 1993 ammonite
Manticoceras cordatum Sandberger and Sandberger 1856 ammonite
Manticoceras lamed Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Aulatornoceras sp. n. sp. Schindewolf 1922 ammonite
 Bactritida - Bactritidae
Bactritidae indet. Hyatt 1884