Dipnorhynchuskiandrensis-type locality (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as The Ravine, near Kiandra

Where: New South Wales, Australia (35.8° S, 148.4° E: paleocoordinates 18.0° S, 173.7° E)

When: Lick Hole Limestone Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous limestone

• Rocks at the locality consist of well-bedded dark-grey limestone interstratified with dark

•calcareous mudstones. There is no doubt that the environment was marine and the facies is closely comparable with that from which the genus has been obtained previously. No other bone has been found at the locality or along strike from it.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. S. W. Campbell and R. E. Barwick. 1982. A new species of the lungfish Dipnorhynchus from New South Wales. Palaeontology 25(3):509-527 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196718: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 02.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dipnorhynchiformes - Dipnorhynchidae
Dipnorhynchus kiandrensis n. sp. Campbell and Barwick 1982 lungfish
ANU35642