Fanning River area, Grypophyllum-Chostophyllum association: Eifelian - Givetian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Charactophyllidae
Temnophyllum sp. Walther 1928
common category
Chostophyllum sp. Pedder 1982
common category
Chostophyllum ? gregorii (Etheridge 1892)
common category
Charactophyllum (Charactophyllum) excavatum
common category
Charactophyllum (Charactophyllum) sp. Simpson 1900
common category
Charactophyllum (Spinophyllum) trochoides
abundant category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Sociophyllum irregulare
common category
Stringophyllum (Stringophyllum) quasinormale
common category
Stringophyllum (Stringophyllum) isactis
rare category
Sunophyllum informal sp. A Wang 1948
common category
Sunophyllum informal sp. B Wang 1948
common category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Fasciphyllidae
Fasciphyllum immersum
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Dohmophyllum clarkei Hill 1942
abundant category
Acanthophyllum (Acanthophyllum) informal sp. A Dybowski 1873
common category
Acanthophyllum sweeti
common category
Grypophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922
abundant category
Grypophyllum curvatum (Hill 1942)
abundant category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stauriidae
? Nadotia lophophylloides
common category
Dendrostella trigemme
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Endophyllidae
Sanidophyllum sp. Etheridge 1899
common category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Columnariidae
Planetophyllum sp. Crickmay 1960
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Aristophyllum planotabulatum n. sp. Zhen 1994
Zhen 1994 common category
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Pseudomicroplasma australe
abundant category
Zonophyllum kwangsiense
rare category
Lythophyllum proliferum n. sp. Zhen 1994
Zhen 1994 common category
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina (Linnaeus 1771)
common category
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 19.7° South, 146.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.7° South, 153.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Eifelian - Givetian
Age range of interval:393.30000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Fanning River Formation:Burdekin
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: top of the Big Bend Arkose and base of the Burdekin Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: corals as thickets or clusters, pioneer phase of carbonate sedimenation over the siliciclastic sea floor
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:80374
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:F. Reichel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-04-15 22:44:37 Last modified:2011-03-25 03:53:31
Access level:group members Released:2010-04-15 22:44:37
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:

27028 J. S. Jell and Y.Y. Zhen. 1994. Middle Devonian rugose coral biostratigraphy of the Fanning River Group, north Queensland, Australia. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172(2):1-6 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]
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]