Slaughterhouse Creek, coral assemblage 3, bioherms (Carboniferous of Australia)

Also known as Reef 556

Where: New South Wales, Australia (29.5° S, 150.2° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 143.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Luton Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• top of the formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• number of small bioherms

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Pickett. 1994. Tournaisian corals and conodonts from the Slaughterhouse Creek area, New South Wales, Australia. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172:51-67 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76488: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
Cyathaxonia sp.
Cyathaxonia sp. Michelin 1847 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
? Amplexocarinia sp.
? Amplexocarinia sp. Soshkina 1928 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Cionodendron columen
 Stauriida - Aphrophyllidae
Merlewoodia bensoni
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Amygdalophyllum sp.
Amygdalophyllum sp. Dun and Benson 1920 horn coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Turnacipora sp.
Turnacipora sp. tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Spinuliplena robertsi n. gen. n. sp., Syringopora septatisiphon
Spinuliplena robertsi n. gen. n. sp. tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
Multithecopora cf. penchiensis