Also known as Carlinastraea fauna UQL2953
Where: Queensland, Australia (19.0° S, 145.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 163.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shield Creek Formation, Lochkovian to Lochkovian (419.2 - 407.6 Ma)
• Formation of Lochkovian/Pragian age. Collections from upper part, but not entirely clear from this statement whether they are Pragian. The Carlinastraea fauna spans both stages.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and intraclastic, shelly/skeletal grainstone
Reposited in the UQ
Primary reference: C.-M. Yu and J. S. Jell. 1990. Early Devonian rugose coral fauna from the Shield Creek Formation, Broken River Embayment, north Queensland. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists [P.A. Jell, ed. Devonian and Carboniferous coral studies] 10:169-209 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40002: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 14.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Texturiphyllum decorum horn coral | |
Radiophyllum cf. arborescens horn coral | |
? Amsdenoides dubius horn coral | |
Gurievskiella apsis horn coral
Gurievskiella undosa horn coral | |
Lyrielasma compactum, Lyrielasma sp., Xystriphyllum parvum, Acanthophyllum kennediense, Dohmophyllum graveyardense, Dohmophyllum angustum, Embolophyllum brokenriverense
Lyrielasma compactum horn coral
Lyrielasma sp. Hill 1939 horn coral
Xystriphyllum parvum horn coral
Acanthophyllum kennediense horn coral
Dohmophyllum graveyardense horn coral
Dohmophyllum angustum horn coral
Embolophyllum brokenriverense horn coral | |
Carlinastraea acanthus horn coral |