Fitzroy River FC5 reefs, Australia (Carboniferous of Australia)

Also known as Reef 473

Where: Queensland, Australia (23.4° S, 150.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° S, 150.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Marginirugus barringtonensis zone, Rockhampton Group, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Age based on brachiopods, conodonts and corals

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone and lithified grainstone

• Lenticular thrombolitic coral mounds surrounded by oolitic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. E. Webb. 1999. Youngest Early Carboniferous (late Visean) shallow-water patch reefs in eastern Australia (Rockhampton Group, Queensland): Combining micro- and macro-scale data. Facies 41:111-140 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24197: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
encrusting
Porostromata
  -
Porostromata indet. Pia 1927
binder
cf. Porostromata indet. Pia 1927
binder
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
encrusting End reef builders
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
 Life -
"cf. Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
"cf. Wetheredella sp." = Allonema
encrusting
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
cryptic
Polychaeta
 Terebellida - Terebellidae
Terebellidae indet. Johnston 1846
encrusting
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
dweller
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
dweller
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Productidae indet. Gray 1840
dweller
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
Fistuliporidae indet. Ulrich 1882
encrusting
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
dweller
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
"Orionastraea" ? parvicolumnare horn coral
constructor
 Stauriida - Aphrophyllidae
Aphrophyllum edgari horn coral
constructor
 Rugosa -
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Caunopora sp. Phillips 1841 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Multithecoporidae
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
constructor
Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae
cf. Haplistion sp. Young and Young 1877 demosponge
constructor
aff. Haplistion sp. Young and Young 1877 demosponge
constructor