The Palaeobiogeography of Eastern Australian lower carboniferous corals

Early Bashkirian Rugosa (Anthozoa) from the Donets Basin (Ukraine). Part 6. The Family Aulophyllidae Dybowski, 1873

“…However, that solution appears questionable when the substantial isolation of the eastern Australian seas from the European and northern African seas in Mississippian times is taken into account. That isolation, proposed long ago and repeated much later (Fedorowski 1981(Fedorowski , 2008) was supported by Webb (1994Webb ( , 2000. It puts into doubt the true relationships of the rugose coral taxa described from those distant areas.…”

Asia–Gondwana connections indicated by Devonian fishes from Australia: palaeogeographic considerations

“…Other fossil groups support a faunal connection across the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary (e.g. Ritchie et al 1992;Webb 2000).…”

Early Carboniferous lignophyte tree diversity in Australia: Woods from the Drummond and Yarrol basins, Queensland

“…For the Viséan, the trees with Pitus-like wood from the Drummond and Yarrol basins represent new examples of plants that are presently documented only in Australia. In this context, it is interesting to note that eastern Australia saw a change from more cosmopolitan conodonts in the Tournaisian to more endemic conodonts in the Viséan, whereas the Viséan corals are clearly endemic; other Viséan marine taxa are, however, considered more cosmopolitan (e.g., Jones et al, 2000;Webb, 2000;Denayer andWebb, 2015) Morris (1985) considered that, during the Viséan, Pitus-like trees formed ombrophile forests with a tree-fern understorey and that this indicated a more humid climate in eastern Australia than during the Tournaisian. This interpretation was based on (1) the association of "Pitus" and the zygopteridalean tree-fern Austroclepsis australis (Sahni, 1932) in the Viséan of New South Wales, and (2) the fact that tree rings in known specimens of 'Pitus' were either indistinct or completely absent.…”