Cairns Queensland Plateau, Unit III, Site 812, Subunit IIIA, samp 133-812A-18X-1 (Miocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (17.9° S, 149.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 159.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; dolomitic packstone and shelly/skeletal rudstone

• Dolomitized coralline algal packstones with mollusks,rhodolith rudstones with larger benthic foraminifers, and bioclastic wackestones, deposited in a shallow lagoonal low-medium energy environment. Cemented lithoclasts exhibit moldic porosity.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. M. Martín and J. C. Braga. 1993. Eocene to Pliocene coralline algae in the Queensland Plateau (northeastern Australia). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 133 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 149841: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
? Halimeda sp.
? Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Marginopora sp.
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral