Boundary Creek Area, Blysmatophyllum-Iowaphyllum association: Givetian, Australia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Lythophyllum proliferum Zhen 1994
rare category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Endophyllidae
? Blysmatophyllum sp. Pedder 1970
common category
Blysmatophyllum isisense Pedder 1970
common category
Blysmatophyllum multigemme n. sp. Zhen 1994
common category
Iowaphyllum schlueteri (Etheridge 1898)
common category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum (Acanthophyllum) informal sp. B Dybowski 1873
common category
Xystriphyllum sp. Hill 1939
common category
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stauriidae
Loyolophyllum sp. Chapman 1914
common category
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 19.5° South, 146.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.8° South, 151.3° 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: Blysmatophyllum isiense-Iowaphyllum schlueteri association
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy wackestone
Lithology description: coral biostromes, associated with oncolites and debris of large crinoid stems
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 1841
Database number:80379
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:F. Reichel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-04-16 03:39:51 Last modified:2011-03-25 07:13:02
Access level:group members Released:2010-04-16 03:39:51
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]