Loc. 37. Dog Trap Creek: Pragian, Australia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Auloporidae
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Aulopora cf. conglomerata
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Adolfiidae
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Spinella aff. buchanensis
Talent 1956
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Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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cf. Modiomorpha indet.
Hall and Whitfield 1869
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Australia | State/province: | Victoria |
Coordinates: | 37.8° South, 147.4° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 14.0° South, 175.8° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Early/Lower Devonian |
Stage: | Pragian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 1 |
Key time interval: | Pragian | ||
Age range of interval: | 410.80000 - 407.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Wentworth | Formation: | Tabberabbera | Member: | Roaring Mag |
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Uppermost member |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine calcareous siltstone |
Secondary lithology: | gray,blue calcareous claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: dark blue-grey claystones, silty claystones, clayey siltstones and fine grained silty quartz sandstones with minor intercalations of dark limestone. | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: "The rich shelly fauna of the Tabberabbera Formation is mostly confined to the Kilgower Sandstone Member." |
Metadata
Database number: | 75700 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2007-10-24 12:18:51 | Last modified: | 2007-10-24 15:18:51 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-10-24 12:18:51 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
16373. | J. A. Talent. 1963. The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers. Geological Survey of Victoria Memoir 24:1-118 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |