Fanning River area, Dendrostella trigemme association (Devonian of Australia)

Also known as Reef 1841

Where: Queensland, Australia (19.7° S, 146.4° E: paleocoordinates 10.9° S, 151.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Dendrostella trigemme association

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• corals formed patches of groves in wave protected areas, associated with wackestones and bioclastic calcirudites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Zhen. 1996. Succession of coral associations during a Givetian transgressive-regressive cycle in Queensland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 41(1):59-88 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80375: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 15.04.2008, edited by Uta Merkel and Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora serpens Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
Aulopora aff. serpens Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
Mastopora aff. spicata Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora crispa tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites aff. saleei Lecompte 1933 tabulate coral
Alveolites cf. fornicatus Schlueter 1889 tabulate coral
Alveolites fornicatus Schlueter 1889 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites "sp. A" Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral
Platyaxum sp. Davis 1887 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
 Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
? Xystriphyllum sp. Hill 1939 horn coral
Dohmophyllum clarkei Hill 1942 horn coral
Acanthophyllum (Acanthophyllum) "sp. B" Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Stauriida - Centristelidae
Centristela sp. Tsyganko 1967 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
 Stauriida - Columnariidae
Planetophyllum sp. Crickmay 1960 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum (Disphyllum) sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Aphyllum salmoni Hill 1942 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Hydrozoa
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