Devonian Fish Fossil Remains from the Canning Basin, Western Australia

Fragmentary remains of Devonian fishes from the Knobby Sandstone in the eastern Canning Basin, Western Australia. The fauna includes a new species of the antiarch Bothriolepis, other placoderm fragments, and rhipidistian teeth and scales, preserved as moulds in coarse sandstone. The data is provided by Geoscience Australia and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Classifying Devonian fish species based on described fossil fragments.
• Analyzing depositional environments based on the fragmentary preservation suggesting high-energy conditions.
• Correlating Late Devonian (Famennian) age strata with other vertebrate assemblages.
• Studying the paleoecology of non-marine clastic formations associated with plant remains like Leptophloeum australe.

Strengths

• Includes description of a new species of the antiarch Bothriolepis.
• Fauna is associated with plant remains, providing ecological context.
• Data is sourced from Geoscience Australia, an authoritative government organization.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Descriptive paleontological study of collected fossil specimens.

Time Range

Late Devonian (Famennian)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 02:08:39.867548; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Billiluna, eastern Canning Basin, Western Australia