Locality 54, Boola Beds, southeast of Tyers Quarry, Tyers area, Victoria (Silurian of Australia)
Where: Victoria, Australia (38.2° S, 146.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 175.6° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Boola Beds Formation, Silurian (443.7 - 416.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous mudstone
• thick, uniform mudstone series, grey-green, the top 100 ft. are fossiliferous, and may become calcareous and strongly cemented with carbonate, approaching an impure limestone
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: G. M. Philip. 1962. The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 75(n.s.):123-246 [A. Miller/K. Layou] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10198: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 05.03.2001