Goniatite zone K, Loc. 371B (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Goniatite zone K, Loc. 371B, Frasnian, Canning Basin

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.5° S, 126.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° S, 127.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Manticoceras n. sp. 5 ammonoid zone, Virgin Hills Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Beloceras aff. tenuistriatum regional zone. Manticoceras n. sp. 5 in Becker & House 2009.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; red limestone and red sandstone

• Marginal slope and basin facies of the reef complex.
• From ref. 10549: "The V.H. Fm. is typically red and consits of calcarenite, calcirudite, and megabreccia with interbedded sandstone, siltstone and conglomerate; clastic sediments become more common in the basin facies."

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 39067: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• In general, only goniatites are mentioned by name.
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Gephuroceratidae indet. Frech 1897 ammonite
close to Mantioceras guppyi
Manticoceras lamed Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite
Trimanticoceras cinctum Glenister 1958 ammonite
 Agoniatitida - Beloceratidae
Beloceras tenuistriatum d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1842 ammonite