Where: Victoria, Australia (37.5° S, 148.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° S, 164.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fairy Formation, Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; tuffaceous sandstone and tuffaceous, muddy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
• Included: lateral rostral bone, premaxilla and isolated small elements assumed to be rostral bones of snout complex
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, acetic
• The associated biota includes an abundance of conchostracans (Tasch, 1987), fish remains (including Bukkanodus jesseni), ostracods, rare gastropods, charophytes, coprolites, and occasional plant remains from a lenticular body of about 33 m.
Primary reference: Z. Johanson, J. A. Long, J. A. Talent, P. Janvier, and J. W. Warren. 2007. New onychodontiform (Osteichthyes; Sarcopterygii) from the Lower Devonian of Victoria, Australia. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):1031-1053 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136138: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 20.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Bukkanodus jesseni n. gen. n. sp.
Bukkanodus jesseni n. gen. n. sp. Johanson et al. 2007 lobe-finned fish |