Where: Queensland, Australia (20.9° S, 147.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 166.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ukalunda Beds Formation, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• Age call based on conodont Polygnathus perbonus found from base and 111.6 m above base of section HID (which has collections going up to 144 m).
•JA: originally entered as Emsian; the perbonus zone is early Emsian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous siltstone and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: See PBDB coll. 8473 for corals.
Primary reference: G. A. Brock and J. A. Talent. 1993. Emsian (Early Devonian) brachiopods from the Ukalunda Beds and Douglas Creek, north Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 15:225-248 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39875: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Gypidulinae indet. Schuchert and Le Vene 1929 | |
"Isorthis (Tyersella) spedeni" = Tyersella
"Isorthis (Tyersella) spedeni" = Tyersella | |
? Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
? Quadrithyrina sp. Havlicek 1959 | |
Coelospira sp. Hall 1863 | |
Strophomenata | |
? Protochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
"Mesodouvillina (Protocymostrophia) cf. dickinsi" = Cymostrophia (Protocymostrophia)
"Mesodouvillina (Protocymostrophia) cf. dickinsi" = Cymostrophia (Protocymostrophia) |