Where: New South Wales, Australia (36.5° S, 150.1° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 155.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bunga Formation (Boyd Volcanic Complex Group), Eifelian to Eifelian (393.3 - 358.9 Ma)

• "The age of the unit is poorly constrained and probably older than the Late Devonian age stated in recent literature" (Choo 2009)

•"Given the unusual aspect of the fish fauna, and the fact that the plant remains are largely unstudied, the fossil evidence from the Bunga beds currently constrains the age only to within the Devonian. Based on comparisons with other areas, an Eifelian or possible Emsian age cannot be excluded (see isotopic dating for the Boyd Volcanic Complex below)." (Young 2007. Devonian formations, vertebrate faunas and age control on the far south coast of New South Wales and adjacent Victoria)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; carbonaceous shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Young

Primary reference: B. Choo. 2009. A Basal Actinopterygian Fish from the Middle Devonian Bunga Beds of New South Wales, Australia. Proceedings - Linnean Society of New South Wales 130:37-46 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 225601: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 19.05.2022

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