Southern Marion Platform, ODP Leg 194, Sites 1196 and 1199 (Miocene to of Australia)

Also known as Reef 3596

Where: Queensland, Australia (21.0° S, 152.9° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° S, 151.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified rudstone and lithified floatstone

• high- to moderate-energy environment within or near coral patch reefs

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. A. R. Conesa, E. Favre, P. Münch, H. Dalmasso, and C. Chaix. 2005. Biosedimentary and paleoenvironmental evolution of the Southern Marion Platform from the Middle to Late Miocene (Northeast Australia, ODP Leg 194, Sites 1196 and 1199). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 194:1-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71260: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.04.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
"Acanthophyllia cf. deshayesiana" = Cynarina lacrymalis
"Acanthophyllia cf. deshayesiana" = Cynarina lacrymalis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
cf. Favites pauciseptata Gerth 1923 stony coral
Antiguastrea aff. alveolaris Catullo 1856 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Lithophyllon cf. mokai Hoeksema 1989 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona (Hydnophoseris) sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora granulata Duncan 1864 stony coral
"Stylophora subseriata" = Stylophora pistillata Esper 1797 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Alveopora polyacantha Reuss 1867 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
Trematotrochus sp. T.-Woods 1879 stony coral