LW 371.5, Lockup Well limestone, Broken River (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.3° S, 144.8° E: paleocoordinates 8.8° S, 154.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: australis conodont zone, Lockup Well limestone Formation (Broken River Group), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; massive limestone

• bedded and massive limestone similar to the Chinaman Creek Limestone.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by Mawson, Talent

Collection methods: bulk, acetic,

• Collections are kept at the Earth Sciences department of the Macquarie University, NSW, Australia.

Primary reference: R. Mawson and J. A. Talent. 1989. Late Emsian-Givetian Stratigraphy and Conodont Biofacies - Carbonate Slope and Offshore Shoal to Sheltered Lagoon and Nearshore Carbonate Ramp - Broken River, North Queensland, Australia. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 117:205-259 [S. Gouwy/S. Gouwy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146092: authorized by Sofie Gouwy, entered by Sofie Gouwy on 15.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus linguiformis Hinde 1879 conodont