Assemblage B, Rockhampton Group, east-central Queensland (Carboniferous of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.0° S, 150.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° S, 146.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Rockhampton Group, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

• Age calls based on corals, brachiopods, conodonts. Zones are brachiopod zones of Roberts (1975). A: Spirifer sol to Schellwienella burlingtonensis; B: Orthotetes australis to Delepinia aspinosa; C: D. aspinosa to Rhipidomella fortimuscula; D: Marginirugus barringtonensis. A is late Tournaisian; B-D are early to late Visean.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal grainstone

• Overall carbonate sequence is shallow water, representing W-E transect with following biofacies: 1. forebank slope; 2. biohermal ooid bank 3. ooid bank/shallow water mobile sands; 4. biostromal open shallow shelf; 5. shallow water mobile sands (open shelf); 6. offshore silt (open shelf); 7. nearshore mobile sands. Assemblage A includes biofacies 3&4; B has 1-3; C has 2-4; D has 2,3,5-7.
• Most limestones are oolitic grainstones. These are within some 2000m of marine siltstone and sandstone. Some of these are allochthonous, but the discussion of geologic context makes it clear that the limestones largely represent intervals of carbonate deposition within the longer siliciclastic sequence.

Primary reference: G. E. Webb. 1990. Lower Carboniferous coral fauna of the Rockhampton Group, east-central Queensland. In J.A. Jell (ed.), Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 10:1-167 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40008: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 14.06.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Paper is on corals. Other elements sometimes mentioned in passing.
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Polycoeliidae
Polycoeliidae indet. Fromentel 1861 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Syringaxon sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
? Claviphyllum sp. Hudson 1942 horn coral
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Hapsiphyllidae indet. Grabau 1928 horn coral
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aphrophyllidae
Aphrophyllidae indet. Hill 1973 horn coral
Merlewoodia abnormalis n. sp. horn coral
Aphrophyllum "sp. A" Smith 1920 horn coral
Coenaphrodia sp. Jull 1974 horn coral
Symplectophyllum "sp. A" Hill 1934 horn coral
Symplectophyllum "sp. B" Hill 1934 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Amygdalophyllum minimum n. sp. horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
 Tabulata -
Auloporida indet. Sokolov 1947 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora latisiphon tabulate coral
Syringopora spinifera tabulate coral
Syringopora "sp. A" Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Palaeacidae
Palaeacis cuneiformis Haime 1857 tabulate coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Idiognathodontidae
Gnathodus texanus Roundy 1926 conodont