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

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.5° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 150.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Chinaman Creek Limestone Member (Broken River Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Early to Middle Givetian

• 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 40013: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 14.06.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• For the most part, only the corals are considered in any detail.
Stromatoporoidea
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Temnophyllum sp. Walther 1928 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Stringophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Dendrostella sp. Glinski 1957 horn coral
 Stauriida - Endophyllidae
Endophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphylloides sp. Chapman 1893 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sp. Lamarck 1799 horn coral
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily