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 40010: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 14.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Acaciapora jelli n. sp.
Acaciapora jelli n. sp. tabulate coral | |
Palaeacis grandis n. sp. tabulate coral
Palaeacis robusta n. sp. tabulate coral
Palaeacis serrata n. sp. tabulate coral | |
Michelinia crassaspina n. sp. tabulate coral
Michelinia cf. varia tabulate coral | |
Cladochonus cf. tenuicollis M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral | |
Calophyllum sp. Dana 1846 horn coral | |
Hapsiphyllidae indet. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Cyathaxonia sp. Michelin 1847 horn coral | |
? Kabakovitchiella hardingae n. sp.
? Kabakovitchiella hardingae n. sp. horn coral | |
"Orionastraea" parvicolumnare horn coral | |
Aphrophyllum edgari n. sp. horn coral
Aphrophyllum cf. edgari horn coral | |
Amygdalophyllum "sp. B" Dun and Benson 1920 horn coral | |
Stereodepasophyllum amplexum n. sp., Dinostrophinx hadros n. gen. n. sp.
Stereodepasophyllum amplexum n. sp. horn coral
Dinostrophinx hadros n. gen. n. sp. horn coral |