Sadler Limestone Corals, Wapet section DD2, Canning Basin: Frasnian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Catactoechus obliquus
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Catactoechus sp.
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Disphyllidae
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Disphyllidae indet.
Hill 1939
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Argutastrea hullensis
(Hill 1954)
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Disphyllum ? curtum
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Disphyllum virgatum
(Hinde 1890)
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Disphyllum ? caespitosum
(Goldfuss 1826)
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? Temnophyllum ? floriforme
Hill 1954
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recombined as Hillastraea floriformis | |||||||
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Metriophyllidae
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Metriophyllum trochoides
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Zaphrentidae
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Zaphrentis iocosa
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synonym of Zaphrenthis | |||||||
Anthozoa
- Charactophyllidae
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Temnophyllum sp.
Walther 1928
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Temnophyllum turbinatum
Hill 1954
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Pachyporidae
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Thamnopora boloniensis
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Alveolitidae
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Alveolites cf. caudatus
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Alveolites ? tumidus
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Alveolites suborbicularis
Lamarck 1801
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Auloporidae
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Aulopora sp.
Goldfuss 1829
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Western Australia |
Coordinates: | 18.0° South, 125.5° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 19.0° South, 126.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Late/Upper Devonian |
Stage: | Frasnian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 4 |
Key time interval: | Frasnian | ||
Age range of interval: | 382.70000 - 372.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Sadler Limestone |
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
Lithology description: Ref. 10549: "Sadler Limestone consists of calcarenite, calcirudite, megabreccia and siltstone..." | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Geology comments: Interpreted as marginal slope facies of reef complex.
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Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: See PBDB coll. 25263 for related (partially overlapping) material. Combined are several levels within section, locality numbers K233,K234,K236-K248,K250-K253 | |
Taxonomic list comments:corals only |
Metadata
Database number: | 39262 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Foote | Enterer: | M. Foote |
Modifier: | M. Foote | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-05-25 11:21:03 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 14:01:03 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-25 11:21:03 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10602. | D. Hill and J. S. Jell. 1970. Devonian corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia Bulletin 121:1-158 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] |