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
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. M. MartÃn 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
Florideophyceae | |
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909 | |
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral |