Devonian marine invertebrate fossils from the port macquarie block, New South Wales

Pickett, J; Och, D; Leitch, E

Devonian marine invertebrate fossils from the port macquarie block, New South Wales

Pickett, J Och, D Leitch, E

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Citation:: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 2009, 130 pp. 193 - 217
Issue Date:: 2009-03-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pickett, J	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Och, D	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Leitch, E	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-03-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 2009, 130 pp. 193 - 217	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0370-047X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/8828
dc.description.abstract	Two assemblages of rugose and tabulate corals, with accessory stromatoporoids and chaetetids, are described from the Touchwood and Mile Road Formations of the Wauchope - Port Macquarie district of northeastern New South Wales. Both assemblages are derived from allochthonous limestone clasts, except that the Mile Road fauna is accompanied at the same level by branching tabulate corals occurring in the matrix, indicating probable contemporaneity. The fauna from the Touchwood Formation indicates an Early Devonian (Emsian) age. Macrofossils from the Mile Road Formation indicate a broad Middle Devonian, probably Givetian age; conodonts accompanying the coral assemblage yield a precise age in the upper part of the early Givetian varcus Zone. Geographic affinities of the assemblages are typically eastern Australian, so that if terranes are represented in the block, these were not remote. Stratigraphie and structural relationships of the units are discussed. The name Mile Road Formation is formally defined.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales	en_US
dc.title	Devonian marine invertebrate fossils from the port macquarie block, New South Wales	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	130	en_US
utslib.for	060808 Invertebrate Biology	en_US
utslib.for	06 Biological Sciences	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	130	en_US

Abstract:

Two assemblages of rugose and tabulate corals, with accessory stromatoporoids and chaetetids, are described from the Touchwood and Mile Road Formations of the Wauchope - Port Macquarie district of northeastern New South Wales. Both assemblages are derived from allochthonous limestone clasts, except that the Mile Road fauna is accompanied at the same level by branching tabulate corals occurring in the matrix, indicating probable contemporaneity. The fauna from the Touchwood Formation indicates an Early Devonian (Emsian) age. Macrofossils from the Mile Road Formation indicate a broad Middle Devonian, probably Givetian age; conodonts accompanying the coral assemblage yield a precise age in the upper part of the early Givetian varcus Zone. Geographic affinities of the assemblages are typically eastern Australian, so that if terranes are represented in the block, these were not remote. Stratigraphie and structural relationships of the units are discussed. The name Mile Road Formation is formally defined.

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