Revised correlations for Carboniferous marine invertebrate zones of eastern Australia

The Palaeobiogeography of Eastern Australian lower carboniferous corals

“…The EALC coral fauna is unquestionably highly endemic, yet other elements of the co-occurring marine fauna and flora (conodonts, ammonoids, algae, foraminifers, and "to a lesser extent, brachiopods") have been considered "relatively cosmopolitan" (Roberts et al, 1993). Is there a paradox here, and if so, what is the explanation?…”

“…Visean conodont correlations are less precise (Roberts et al, 1993), and the most common east-CARBONIFEROUS CORAL BIOGEOGRAPHY 113 ern Australian taxa are endemic (Jenkins et ah, 1993). So, as in the case of reef corals, conodonts became increasingly endemic through the Visean of eastern Australia.…”

The role of microbes in reef-building communities of the Cannindah limestone (Mississippian), Monto region, Queensland, Australia

“…Crinoidal limestones are common in all parts of the succession. According to the conodont data of and Roberts et al (1993), the age of the Cannindah Limestone is from late Early Viséan to early Late Viséan.…”

A Mississippian Miospore Biozone for Southern Gondwana

“…The seedfern fronds referred to Diplothmema gothanica, Nothorhacopteris, Sphenopteridium, and Triphyllopteris are common elements in this flora. The stratigraphic range of the Late Carboniferous Nothorhacopteris has been extended into the latest Early Carboniferous (Tripathi and Singh, 1985;De Rouvre, 1988;Azcuy and Suarez-Soruco, 1993;Roberts et al, 1993;Iannuzzi et al, 1999), based on material from Australia, Bolivia, India, and Niger. Nothorhacopteris kellaybelenensis characterizes the Paraca Floral Realm, and occurs in Australia (White, 1965;Rigby, 1973;Morris, 1975;1985), India (Høeg et al, 1955;Pal and Chaloner, 1979), and Niger and Sinai (Lejal-Nicol, 1987;De Rouvre, 1988).…”