Where: Queensland, Australia (16.8° S, 147.6° E: paleocoordinates 22.3° S, 173.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone and rudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. M. Martín and J. C. Braga. 1993. Eocene to Pliocene coralline algae in the Queensland Plateau (northeastern Australia). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 133 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 149840: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Jania sp. Lamoroux 1812
Corallina sp. Linnaeus 1758
Spongites sp. Kützing 1841
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897 | |
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |