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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Polycoeliidae indet. Fromentel 1861 horn coral | |
Syringaxon sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral | |
? Claviphyllum sp. Hudson 1942 horn coral | |
Hapsiphyllidae indet. Grabau 1928 horn coral
Amplexizaphrentis sp. Vaughan 1906 horn coral | |
Aphrophyllidae indet., Merlewoodia abnormalis n. sp., Merlewoodia cf. foliacea, Aphrophyllum medium, Aphrophyllum cf. medium, Aphrophyllum "sp. A", Coenaphrodia sp., Symplectophyllum rosewoodensis n. sp., Symplectophyllum "sp. A", Symplectophyllum "sp. B"
Aphrophyllidae indet. Hill 1973 horn coral
Merlewoodia abnormalis n. sp. horn coral
Merlewoodia cf. foliacea horn coral
Aphrophyllum medium horn coral
Aphrophyllum cf. medium horn coral
Aphrophyllum "sp. A" Smith 1920 horn coral
Coenaphrodia sp. Jull 1974 horn coral
Symplectophyllum rosewoodensis n. sp. horn coral
Symplectophyllum "sp. A" Hill 1934 horn coral
Symplectophyllum "sp. B" Hill 1934 horn coral | |
Amygdalophyllum minimum n. sp.
Amygdalophyllum minimum n. sp. horn coral | |
"Siphonodendron" consanguineum horn coral
"Orionastraea" columellaris horn coral | |
Auloporida indet. Sokolov 1947 tabulate coral | |
Syringopora latisiphon tabulate coral
Syringopora spinifera tabulate coral
Syringopora "sp. A" Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Palaeacis cuneiformis Haime 1857 tabulate coral | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Conodonta | |
Gnathodus texanus Roundy 1926 conodont |