Where: Queensland, Australia (17.9° S, 149.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 159.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; shelly/skeletal floatstone
Size classes: macrofossils, 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 149843: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986 | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
? Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin |