Locality UQL2953, Shield Creek Fmn, N Queensland: Lochkovian - Pragian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Radiophyllum cf. arborescens
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Gurievskiella apsis
Gurievskiella undosa
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Amsdenoididae
? Amsdenoides dubius
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Dohmophyllum graveyardense
Dohmophyllum angustum
Acanthophyllum kennediense
Lyrielasma compactum
Lyrielasma sp. Hill 1939
Embolophyllum brokenriverense
Xystriphyllum parvum
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Spongophyllidae
Carlinastraea acanthus
Anthozoa
Texturiphyllum decorum
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 19.0° South, 145.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.9° North, 163.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1
Key time interval:Lochkovian - Pragian
Age range of interval:419.20000 - 407.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shield Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Formation of Lochkovian/Pragian age. Collections from upper part, but not entirely clear from this statement whether they are Pragian. The Carlinastraea fauna spans both stages.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology:intraclastic,shelly/skeletal grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The material is from...a number of limestone lenses outcropping on the E slopes of the quartzite ridge running N from 'Pandanus Creek' homestead...Stratigraphically, the lenses occur in the middle 50m of the Shield Creek Formation which in this area is c. 160m thick and predominantly of medium to coarse arkose with thin mudstone interbeds and thin, clean, very coarse quartz-arenite lenses. The limestone lenses consist predominantly of thickly bedded calcarenites and calcirudites composed mainly of fragments of algae, stromatoporoids, corals, brachiopods, crinoid debris and other shelly material, and intraclasts, all set in a fine micritic matrix.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Some evidence in some collections that corals were rolled and transported.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UQ
Taxonomic list comments:Rugose corals only. See lithologic description for other taxa known (as fragments) but not studied.
Metadata
Also known as:Carlinastraea fauna UQL2953
Database number:40002
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-06-14 07:51:33 Last modified:2006-09-13 14:01:03
Access level:the public Released:2004-06-14 07:51:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10842. C.-M. Yu and J. S. Jell. 1990. Early Devonian rugose coral fauna from the Shield Creek Formation, Broken River Embayment, north Queensland. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists [P.A. Jell, ed. Devonian and Carboniferous coral studies] 10:169-209 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]