Abstract
Two of the best-known marine Devonian sequences of south-eastern Australia are those of the Buchan district, Victoria1, and of the Taemas-Cavan area of the Murrum-bidgee Valley in southern New South Wales2. The Buchan sequence has been regarded as Middle Devonian in age since McCoy3 correlated it with the “Devonian limestones of the Eifel”, and this opinion has been endorsed by subsequent workers1,4–14. Similarly, de Koninck15 first suggested a Middle Devonian age for the Murrum-bidgee sequence in 1877, and later palæontologists2,16–20 have agreed with this assignment. The similarity of the two sequences has been commented on2; but whereas the consensus of opinion has been that the Buchan section is wholly Eifelian, an age as young as Givetian has been ascribed to the upper part of the Murrumbidgee section21.
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PHILIP, G., PEDDER, A. A Re-assessment of the Age of the Middle Devonian of South-eastern Australia. Nature 202, 1323–1324 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021323a0
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