Also known as Reef 558
Where: Queensland, Australia (24.9° S, 151.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° S, 148.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Montognathus semicarinatus - Montognathus carinatus conodont zone, Cannindah Formation, Holkerian to Holkerian (342.8 - 336.0 Ma)
• Age given as late middle to early late Visean (conodont zones Montognathus semicarinatus and Montognathus carinatus)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J.-W. Shen and G. E. Webb. 2005. Metazoan-microbial framework fabrics in a Mississippian (Carboniferous) coral-sponge-microbial reef, Monto, Queensland, Australia. Sedimentary Geology 178(1-2):113-133 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75955: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 07.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906 | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Syringoporidae indet. Fromentel 1864 tabulate coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Lithistida indet. demosponge | |
Shamovella | |
cf. Shamovella sp. Rauser-Chernousova 1951 | |
Renalcis | |
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Rothpletzella | |
cf. Rothpletzella sp. Wood 1948 | |
Cyanophyceae | |
Ortonella sp., "Palaeomicrocodium sp." = Baccanella
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
"Palaeomicrocodium sp." = Baccanella Pantic 1971 | |
Aphralysia sp. Garwood 1914 |