Where: Western Australia, Australia (18.0° S, 125.5° E: paleocoordinates 19.9° S, 123.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Virgin Hills Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)
• Ammonoid Stufe II-alpha
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; red limestone and calcareous siltstone
Collection methods: Loc. T45: C62. 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 39096: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Cheiloceras (Staffites) ovatum" = Puncticeras ovatus
"Cheiloceras (Staffites) ovatum" = Puncticeras ovatus Munster 1832 ammonite |