Cairns Queensland Plateau, Unit III, Site 812, Subunit IIIB, samp.133-812B-10R (Miocene of Australia)

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

• deposited in shallow water close to a reefal environment
• Dolomitized bioclastic floatstones

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 149843: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinales indet. Silva and Johansen 1986
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
? Platygyra sp. Ehrenberg 1834 stony coral
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin