Cairns Queensland Plateau, lithologic Subunit III, Site 824 (Pliocene of Australia)

Where: Queensland, Australia (16.7° S, 146.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.5° S, 145.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; shelly/skeletal rudstone and packstone

• redeposited clasts of bioclastic rudstones and packstones that have been interpreted as debris-flow deposits

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. M. Martín and J. C. Braga. 1993. Eocene to Pliocene coralline algae in the Queensland Plateau (northeastern Australia). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 133 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 149845: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithoporella sp.
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion sp., Mesophyllum sp.
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Foraminifera indet.