JES 117.5, Jessey Springs Limestone, Broken River (Devonian of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.4° S, 144.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 150.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: hemiansatus zone, Jessey Springs Limestone Formation (Broken River Group), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; massive limestone

• well bedded bioclastic limestones and subordinate massive limestones.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by Mawson, Talent

Collection methods: bulk, acetic,

• Collection is stored at 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 146159: authorized by Sofie Gouwy, entered by Sofie Gouwy on 16.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus brevis Stauffer 1940 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Eognathodus bipennatus conodont
ssp. bipennatus alpha morphotype
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus linguiformis Hinde 1879 conodont
ssp. transversus
Polygnathus parawebbi Chatterton 1974 conodont