Also known as Carlinastraea fauna UQL2954
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 40003: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 14.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Pseudamplexus princeps horn coral | |
Carlinastraea acanthus horn coral | |
Dohmophyllum graveyardense, Embolophyllum brokenriverense, Lyrielasma compactum, Xystriphyllum parvum
Dohmophyllum graveyardense horn coral
Embolophyllum brokenriverense horn coral
Lyrielasma compactum horn coral
Xystriphyllum parvum horn coral | |
Texturiphyllum decorum horn coral |