Cairns Queensland Plateau. lithologic Unit VI, Site 825, sample 133-825B-7R-1 (Eocene of Australia)

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

• grainstones and rudstones (sometimes floatstones)

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
  - Corallinophycidae
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 -
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
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