Chinaman Creek Lst Lower Fauna, Broken River Province, N Queensland (Devonian to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.5° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 160.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Chinaman Creek Limestone Member (Broken River Formation), Emsian to Emsian (407.6 - 387.7 Ma)

• Late Emsian to early Eifelian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and calcareous shale

• Shallow marine.
• Ref. 10847: "2250 feet of limestone with moderate-sized bioherms at the base" "Predominantly detrital limestones with thin calcareous shales and several thick coarse sandstone beds; large reefal limestones in basal unit...Interbedded in the Broken River Formation and grading laterally into muddy sediments to the south"

Primary reference: J. S. Jell, A. Simpson, R. Mawson and J. A. Talent. 1993. Biostratigraphic summary. in I. W. Withnall and S. C. Lang, eds. Geology of the Broken River Province, north Queensland [Queensland Geology vol. 4; Department of Minerals and Energy] 239-245 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40011: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 14.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

• For the most part, only the corals are considered in any detail.
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphylloides sp.
Cystiphylloides sp. Chapman 1893 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sp.
Calceola sp. Lamarck 1799 horn coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Phacellophyllum sp., Protomacgeea sp., "Phillipsastraea sp." = Phillipsastrea, Thamnophyllum sp.
Phacellophyllum sp. Gürich 1909 horn coral
Protomacgeea sp. Rozkowska 1956 horn coral
"Phillipsastraea sp." = Phillipsastrea d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral
Thamnophyllum sp. Penecke 1894 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
"Sinospongophyllum sp." = Tabulophyllum
"Sinospongophyllum sp." = Tabulophyllum Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
 Stauriida - Endophyllidae
Endophyllum sp.
Endophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Lyrielasma sp., Xystriphyllum sp., Acanthophyllum sp., Taimyrophyllum sp.
Lyrielasma sp. Hill 1939 horn coral
Xystriphyllum sp. Hill 1939 horn coral
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Taimyrophyllum sp. Chernyshev 1941 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Sociophyllum sp., Stringophyllum sp.
Sociophyllum sp. Birenheide 1962 horn coral
Stringophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet.
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet.
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes sp.
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge