B84F Hidden Valley, Ukalunda Beds, Ukalunda District, North Queensland (Devonian to of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (20.0° S, 147.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 161.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ukalunda Formation, Couvinien to Couvinien (409.1 - 382.7 Ma)

• the authors state, "the fauna is so similar to B76F that it must be of approximately the same age--probably Couvinian"; later the statement is also made that "as in previous papers on Australian coral faunas by Hill (e.g. 1950), we use the sequence in the south of the Dinant Basin as our standard of reference for the Devonian, so that we subdivide the Middle Devonian into the Couvinian and Givetian stages, rather that Eifelian and Givetian stages"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and conglomerate

• the present collections are from two stratigraphic units: the ukalunda beds and conglomerate at the base of the overlying drummond group. the corals in the latter are found in limestone pebbles in the conglomerate and it is assumed that the pebbles were derived from an older limestone.

Primary reference: D. Hill and J. S. Jell. 1969. Devonian Corals from Ukalunda . Geologicial Survey of Queensland Publication 340:1-27 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8474: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 13.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites cf. goldfussi Lecompte 1939 tabulate coral
Squameofavosites bryani tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora ? sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Ceratophyllum sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral
Ceratophyllum sp. A?
Gurievskiella talenti n. sp. horn coral
 Stauriida - Lykophyllidae
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum pannosum n. sp. horn coral