Also known as Lowes Basin, Burdekin Fm., North Queensland, Australia

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.1° S, 146.3° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° S, 151.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdekin Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• author only refers to formation as Middle Devonian in age, but includes statement that "examination of the rugose coral fauna in similar deposits at nearby Burdekin Downs by Hill give a Givetian age"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; calcareous limestone and sandstone

Primary reference: E. Heidecker. 1959. Middle Devonian Molluscs from the Burdekin Formation of North Queensland. University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, Department of Geology 5(2):1-11 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7189: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.05.2000

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