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View of Gogo Station, 1951

The Gogo Formation in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is a Lagerstätte that exhibits exceptional preservation of a Devonian reef community. The formation is named after Gogo Station, a cattle station where outcrops appear and fossils are often collected from,[1] as is nearby Fossil Downs Station.

History

The reef, which now stands up abruptly in the western Australian desert (as the Windjana Limestone), was first identified in 1940 by paleontologist Curt Teichert, who discovered the first fossil fish from the region.[2]

Sedimentology

Unweathered sections of the Gogo Formation are made of siltstone, shale and calcarenite with numerous limestone concretions. These concretions are resistant to weathering, producing extensive nodule fields on the ground in areas where the surrounding rock has eroded away.[3]

The Gogo sediments represent deep, hypoxic seafloor deposits in the vicinity of a large tropical reef composed primarily of algae and stromatoporoids during the Frasnian faunal stage of the Late Devonian.[4] Associated stratigraphic units which comprise this ancient reef system are the Windjana Formation (the actual reef structures), Pillara Limestone (reef platform) and the Sadler Formation (fore-reef deposits).[3]

Deposition

The formation was deposited in the Frasnian (late Devonian).[5]

Fossil preservation

The fossils of the Gogo Formation display three-dimensional soft-tissue preservation of tissues as fragile as nerves and embryos with umbilical cords.[5] Over fifty species of fish have been described from the formation, and arthropods, including phyllocarids[6] and eurypterids[7] are similarly well-preserved.[5] Nautiloids, goniatites and tentaculids are also known from the formation, but their soft tissue is not preserved.[5]

The calcareous concretions formed around objects from the shallow reef areas which sank into the deep anoxic basins. The concretions sometimes contain the remains of fish, whose bodies are often preserved complete in three-dimensions due to rapid encasement and the slow rate of decay in the oxygen-poor surroundings. By repeated baths in a dilute acid solution, the matrix is dissolved away via a process of acid etching to reveal delicate fish fossils, some retaining impressions of soft tissues.

The discovery of Materpiscis, a placoderm preserved with an embryonic juvenile still attached by its umbilical cord, has revealed that at least some placoderms gave birth to live young.[8]

Fossil content

Placodermi

Genus Species Notes Images
Austroptyctodus A. gardinieri [9]
Bothriolepis Indeterminate [10]
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Bruntonichthys B. multidens [11]
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Bullerichthys B. fascidens [11]
Campbellodus C. decipiens [9]
Файл:Campbellodus decipiens.jpg
Camuropiscis C. concinnus [12]
Файл:Camuropiscis species.jpg
C. laidlawi [13]
Compagopiscis C. croucheri [14]
Eastmanosteus E. calliaspis [15]
Файл:E calliaspis.png
Fallacosteus F. turneri [16]
Файл:Fallacosteus turnerae.jpg
Harrytoombsia H. elegans [17]
Файл:Harrytoombsia (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet).jpg
Holonema H. westolli [18]
Файл:Holonema westolli.jpg
Incisoscutum I. ritchei
Файл:Incisoscutum ritchei.jpg
I. sarahae [19]
Kendrickichthys K. cavernosus [11]
Kimberleyichthys K. bispicatus [14]
K. whybrowi [14]
Materpiscis M. attenboroughi [20]
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Latocamurus L. coulthardi [21]
Файл:Latocamurus coulthardi.jpg
Mcnamaraspis M. kaprios [22]
Файл:Mcnamaraspis.png
Pinguosteus P. thulborni [16]
Файл:Pinguosteus thulborni.jpg
Rolfosteus R. canningensis [23]
Файл:Rolfosteus canningensis.jpg
Simosteus S. tuberculatus [24]
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Torosteus T. tuberculatus [14]
T. pulchellus [14]
Tubonasus T. lennardensis [23]
Файл:Tubonasus lennardensis.jpg

Actinopterygii

Genus Species Notes Images
Gogosardina G. coatesi [14]
Mimipiscis M. toombsi [25]
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Moythomasia M. durgaringa
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M. lineata

Chondrichthyes

Genus Species Notes Images
Gogoselachus G. lynbeazleyae [26]
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Acanthodians

Genus Species Notes
Halimacanthodes H. ahlbergi [27]

Sarcopterygii

Genus Species Notes Images
Adololopas A. moyasmithae [14]
Chirodipterus C. australis [28]
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cf. Diplocercides Indeterminate [29]
Файл:Diplocercides heiligostockensis.jpg
Gogodipterus G. paddyensis [30]
Gogonasus G. andrewsae [31]
Файл:Gogonasus andrewsae skull and girdle.png
Griphognathus G. whitei [28]
Файл:Griphognathus whitei skull.png
Holodipterus "H" (Holodipteroides) elderae [14]
H. gogoensis [28]
H. meemanae [14]
Onychodus O. jandemarrai [32]
Файл:Onychodus jandemarrai holotype skull.png
Pillararhynchus P. longi [33]
Rhinodipterus R. kimberleyensis [5]
Robinsondipterus R. longi [34]
Xeradipterus X. hatcheri [35]

Conodonta

Genus Species Notes
Polygnathus P. varca [36]
P. normalis [36]
P. asymmetrica asymmetrica [36]
P. asymmetrica ovalis [36]
Playfordia P. primitiva [36]
Gnamptognathus G.? lipperti [36]
G.? cf. G.? lipperti [36]
Ancyrodella A. rotundiloba alata [36]
A. rotundiloba rotundiloba [36]
Icirodus I. symmetricus [36]
Roundya A. aurita [36]

Ammonoidea

Genus Species Notes
Timanites T. angustus [36]
Tornoceras T. (T.) simplex [36]

Arthropoda

Genus Species Notes Images
Montecaris M. gogoensis Phyllocarid arthropod, reaching length up to Шаблон:Convert.[37]
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M. sp. indet. [37]
Schugurocaris S. wami Phyllocarid arthropod.[37]
S. sp. indet.
Dithyrocaris D. sp. indet.
Concavicaris C. campi Thylacocephalan arthropod.[6][38]
C. glenisteri
C. milesi
C. playfordi
C. sp.
Harrycaris H. whittingtoni
Adelophthalmus A. waterstoni An eurypterid. Originally described as a species of Rhenopterus.[39]
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Undescribed eurypterid [40]
'Mushia' Common fossil from Gogo Formation, undescribed arthropod with unknown affinity.
Chemical analysis shows that is likely to be a crustacean.[40]
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