Kirkland Downs, Australophyllum-Sanidophyllum association: Givetian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Pseudomicroplasma australe
common category
Anthozoa - Charactophyllidae
Charactophyllum (Spinophyllum) trochoides
common category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Centristelidae
Centristela sp. Tsyganko 1967
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Argutastrea sp. Crickmay 1960
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Endophyllidae
Sanidophyllum kirklandense n. sp. Zhen 1994
Zhen 1994 common category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
Fasciphyllum immersum
common category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Xystriphyllum sp. Hill 1939
common category
Acanthophyllum (Acanthophyllum) informal sp. B Dybowski 1873
common category
Australophyllum cyathophylloides (Etheridge 1911)
Zhen 1994 abundant category
n. subsp. yohi
Taimyrophyllum sp. Chernyshev 1941
common category
Taimyrophyllum crassiseptatum n. sp. Zhen 1994
Zhen 1994 common category
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 19.5° South, 146.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.8° South, 151.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Givetian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Givetian
Age range of interval:387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Fanning River Formation:Burdekin
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Australophyllum-Sanidophyllum association
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: coral biostromes
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 1841
Database number:106535
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-25 01:24:34 Last modified:2011-03-24 09:24:34
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-25 01:24:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35619. 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]

Secondary references:

35620 Y. Zhen. 1994. Givetian rugose corals from the northern margin of the Burdekin Basin, north Queensland. Alcheringa 18:301-343 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]