Publication Date
11-30-1980
Series Number
180
Abstract
A vertebrate microfauna from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) of Australia is described. It is a taxonomically diverse assemblage, including disarticulated dermal skeletal fragments and/or teeth of Thelodonti, Placodermi, Cladodontida, Acanthodii, Onychodontidae, Rhipidistia, and Paleoniscida. Elements of this fauna have been described previously from geographically diverse localities of approximately equivalent age, but this Australian fauna is unique in possessing all of the above taxonomic groups in a single assemblage. This occurrence reinforces previous suggestions that the Lower Devonian fish fauna was widespread and uniform.
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