Virgin Hills Fm. Ammonoids, Loc. T15, A35,Stufe II-beta/III-alpha, Canning Basin (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.0° S, 125.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 117.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Virgin Hills Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Ammonoid Stufe II-beta or III-alpha

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; red limestone and calcareous siltstone

• Marginal slope and basin facies of the reef complex.
• "The Virgin HIlls Formation averages approximately 300 meters in thickness in the study area and consists of bright red limestone, calcareous siltstone, shale, and sandstone." Monograph doesn't really give information needed to partition individual collecting localities into different lithologies.

Collection methods: Loc. T15: A35, A37, and A38 combined. Author gives specimen counts.

Primary reference: M. S. Petersen. 1975. Upper Devonian (Famennian) ammonoids from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Paleontological Society Memoir 8:1-55 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39078: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.05.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Monograph devoted to ammonoids only.
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unclassified
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Genusinadvertentlyentered (Genusinadvertentlyentered) speciesinadvertentlyentered
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
"Tornoceras (Tornoceras) simplex" = Tornoceras simplex
"Tornoceras (Tornoceras) simplex" = Tornoceras simplex von Buch 1832 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Posttornoceratidae
Posttornoceras glenisteri
Posttornoceras glenisteri Petersen 1975 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Dimeroceratidae
Dimeroceras petterae, Paratornoceras lentiforme
Dimeroceras petterae Petersen 1975 ammonite
Paratornoceras lentiforme Sandberger 1857 ammonite