Australia: The Land Where Time Began
Gogo Station, NT
Late Devonian
At this time Australia was much closer to the equator than its present position and a Palaeozoic equivalent of the Great barrier Reef had formed off the north-western coast of the continent.
Some fossils from this period that have been found on Gogo Station, Western Australia are:
The arthrodire
Eastmanosteus
The arthrodire placoderm
- Fallacoesteus turnerae, Gogo Formation
- Latocamurus coulhardi
A palaeoniscoid from Paddy's Valley, on Gogo
The lungfish
Late Devonian
Chirodipterus australis
Early Devonian
Griphognathus whitei
The crossopterygian fish
Onychodus sp.
- Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Wildlife of Gondwana, Reed Australia, 1993
- John A Long The Rise of Fishes - 500 Million years of Evolution, University of New South Wales Press, 1995
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